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Note Submitter: himadri dot s dot roy at ansysoft dot com ---- Hi Guys, Thank you in advance if you can solve my problem. I am trying to use json_encode in PHP 5.6. My setup: Windows 7 Apache 2.4 PHP 5.6 MySQL 5 Everyone has talked about recompile PHP with json for Linux, but I did not find any solution whether there is php_json.dll or something like that exists and we can use it readily. Purchasing another machine for linux and use it as server is another solution but costly. Is there any work around. Regards Himadri PS. I don't want to use mysqli_set_charset (for messy code) or utf8_encode.