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<?php $bom = "\xef\xbb\xbf"; $json_string = $bom.'{"greeting":"Hello world"}'; var_dump( $json_string, json_decode($json_string, true), preg_replace('/[\x00-\x1F\x80-\xFF]/', '', $json_string), json_decode( preg_replace('/[\x00-\x1F\x80-\xFF]/', '', $json_string), true ) );

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