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<?php $User = array( 'Name' => "Hans-Peterµµ", 'Contacts' => array(1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 42), 'Active' => 1 ); $J = json_encode(array_utf8_encode($User)); foreach ($J as &$val) { $val = preg_replace_callback('/\\\\u([0-9a-f]{4})/i', function($matches) { return mb_convert_encoding(pack('H*', $matches[1]), 'UTF-8', 'UTF-16'); }, $val);} echo $J; function array_utf8_encode($Array) { foreach($Array as &$Val) { if(is_array($Val)) { $Val = array_utf8_encode($Val); } elseif(is_string($Val)) { $Val = mb_convert_encoding($Val, 'UTF-8', 'auto'); } } return $Array; }

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