note 85980 deleted from function.json-decode by salathe

Note Submitter: jrevillini ---- When decoding strings from the database, make sure the input was encoded with the correct charset when it was input to the database. I was using a form to create records in the DB which had a content field that was valid JSON, but it included curly apostrophes. If the page with the form did not have <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8"> in the head, then the data was sent to the database with the wrong encoding. Then, when json_decode tried to convert the string to an object, it failed every time.