Escaping JSON apostrophe before PHP's json_encode truncates?

Question

I have a field in a MySQL database (utf8_general_ci) that contains a curly (smart?) apostrophe: Owner's...

This prints fine with no special handling if I access the PHP page that pulls it from the DB. However, I am trying to access it via a $.getJSON request on another page, so I used PHP's json_encode. It truncates the value so that it reads Owner , then successfully encodes the rest of the data. If I use PHP's utf8_encode on the field before I json_encode, it includes the full value with the ' encoded to \’ which then doesn't print anything on the page, giving me Owners . PHP's htmlentities and htmlspecialchars have no effect.

Looking at the request in Chrome's tools, Owner's is shown as Owner s on the $.getJSON page.

Can anyone help me out here? I have read other questions on SO and the web but I cannot find anything that helps and I haven't worked much with JSON.

Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

For details: json_encode

Example:

echo json_encode($array, JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT | JSON_HEX_AMP | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);

Answer 2

Using PHP's utf8_encode() before my json_encode() did indeed stop the data from cutting off after the ' but it also encoded it to \\0092 which did not display (control character). When I used MySQL's SET NAMES utf8 before my query, I did not have to use utf8_encode() at all, and my json was encoded correctly with ' mapping to \’ , which displays nicely.

Thanks for the link @Pekka, it helped me narrow down the possibilities.