- mb_convert_encoding: documentation ( source)
- var_dump: documentation ( source)
- mb_detect_encoding: documentation ( source)
- json_decode: documentation ( source)
<?php
$someFoo = '{ "Foo" : "Bar" }';
$someFoo = mb_convert_encoding($someFoo, 'ASCII');
echo mb_detect_encoding($someFoo) . "\r\n";
var_dump(json_decode($someFoo));
$data= mb_convert_encoding($someFoo, 'UTF-8');
echo mb_detect_encoding($data) . "\r\n";
var_dump(json_decode($data));