`json_encode does not return a UTF8 character

Question

I have a AJAX request sent to the PHP server, and PHP returns an array with json_encode back to the client.

The array is a simple 2-indexed array.

What I get from console.log() is this:

{"1":"\u00d9\u0081\u00db\u008c\u00d9\u0084\u00d8\u00af title \u00d9\u0086\u00d8\u00a8\u00d8\u00a7\u00db\u008c\u00d8\u00af \u00d8\u00ae\u00d8\u00a7\u00d9\u0084\u00db\u008c \u00d8\u00a8\u00d8\u00a7\u00d8\u00b4\u00d8\u00af.","0":"FAIL"}

I think this is ASCII charset ? I don't know but I know it is not persian character!!!!

Here is my PHP code:

header ('Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');
            $message = $validator->messages();
            $response[1] = utf8_encode($message->first());
            $response[0] = FAIL;
            echo json_encode(($response));

Though when I set the response to echo only $message->first() than a json object , it is ok and utf-8 fully

Answer 1

I think your problem is that your PHP is claiming a content type of text/html rather than application/json . If you change the type, it will tell the browser that it should parse the content as JSON and you will get an object in your AJAX handler.