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<?php $json = array( "Sample" => array( "context" => 'ciaoè' ) ); $encoded = json_encode($json); var_dump($encoded); $unescaped = preg_replace_callback('/\\\u(\w{4})/', function ($matches) { return html_entity_decode('&#x' . $matches[1] . ';', ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8'); }, $encoded); var_dump($unescaped);
Output for 5.3.0 - 5.3.29, 5.4.0 - 5.4.45, 5.5.0 - 5.5.38, 5.6.0 - 5.6.40, 7.0.0 - 7.0.33, 7.1.0 - 7.1.33, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.0 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.19, 8.3.0 - 8.3.7
string(35) "{"Sample":{"context":"ciao\u00e8"}}" string(31) "{"Sample":{"context":"ciaoè"}}"
Output for 4.4.2 - 4.4.9, 5.1.0 - 5.1.6, 5.2.0 - 5.2.17
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /in/NXWRC on line 12
Process exited with code 255.
Output for 4.3.0 - 4.3.1, 4.3.5 - 4.3.11, 4.4.0 - 4.4.1, 5.0.0 - 5.0.5
Parse error: parse error, unexpected T_FUNCTION in /in/NXWRC on line 12
Process exited with code 255.
Output for 4.3.2 - 4.3.4
Parse error: parse error in /in/NXWRC on line 12
Process exited with code 255.

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