In my database, there are many special characters like (İstanbul, Yeşilköy, Atatürk and more).
when I directly fetch these data from the database all working fine. Means data remain original but problem occur when I convert these data to JSON using json_encode().
After encoding all these data converted to some strange characters like ?stanbul, Bak?rköy...
But after decodeing (using json_decode) I need the original string which was before encoding(json_encode).
I tried many solutions provided on the web to solve the problem but none of them is fully working in my case.
some solutions I tried-
- $item = utf8_encode($item);
- $item = html_entity_decode($item, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');
- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-encode.php
- I also tried a library available on github (https://github.com/neitanod/forceutf8)
If not possible to get the original string atleast there should not be any ? like thing(remove these things).
Suggest me something to solve the issue.
