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<?php $User = array( 'Name' => "Hans-Peterµµ", 'Contacts' => array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 42), 'Seen' => array(array('UserID' => 2, 'Timestamp' => 5046), array('UserID' => 3, 'Timestamp' => 789456)), 'Active' => 1 ); $J = json_encode(array_utf8_encode($User)); var_dump($J);die(); function array_utf8_encode($Array) { foreach($Array as &$Val) { if(is_array($Val)) { $Val = array_utf8_encode($Val); } elseif(is_string($Val)) { $Val = mb_convert_encoding(htmlentities($Val), 'UTF-8'); } } return $Array; }

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