Re: json_encode() and non-UTF8 strings

On Tue, Apr 3, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Rasmus Lerdorf <rasmus@lerdorf.com> wrote: > On 04/02/2012 06:35 PM, Charlie Somerville wrote: >> Hi internals, >> >> I've created a pull request (https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/33) that changes >> json_encode to fall back to ASCII for strings that are not valid UTF-8. >> >> I ran into an issue in a production application involving PayPal IPN callbacks (which are >> sent encoded as windows-1252) and json_encode(). If there was an accented character present in the >> data, json_encode() would fail to encode the string and serialize it as 'null'. >> >> I've modified the behaviour of the underlying json_escape_string() implementation to >> attempt to encode strings anyway while still producing a warning. > > JSON with non-Unicode strings is no longer JSON. The spec is explicit > that all strings must be Unicode. The default encoding is UTF-8, but it > could be UTF-16/32 as well. agree, allowing json code in no-utf8 charset is a wrong way. especially in json-rpc, it will make things mess.. thanks > > See http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt > > -Rasmus > > -- > PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Laruence  Xinchen Hui http://www.laruence.com/