使用PHP将希伯来字符转换为UTF-8

Question

i have a MySQL field value with a json object containing Hebrew characters like this:

[{"name":"אספנות ואומנות","value":1,"target":null},{"name":"אופניים","value":2,"target":null}]

(the one in the name field)

This field output is giving me some trouble with a certain web interface. so, looking around in the database i found another field containing json object and its output works fine.

[{"name":"\u05d0\u05e1\u05e4\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea \u05d5\u05d0\u05d5\u05de\u05e0\u05d5\u05ea","value":1,"target":null},{"name":"\u05d0\u05d5\u05e4\u05e0\u05d9\u05d9\u05dd","value":2,"target":null}]

So i would like to convert the first field to this encoding to see if its solves the output issue.

what is this encoding ? is it UTF-8 ? how can i convert it using PHP ?

i tried to isolate the value and convert it to UTF-8 using

echo iconv("Windows-1255","UTF-8",'אספנות ואומנות');

but its just returning an empty value.

Any help would be great

Answer 1

So, in PHP

json_encode('אספנות ואומנות');

did the trick