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<?php $json = array( "Sample" => array( "context" => 'جمهوری اسلامی ایران' ) ); $encoded = json_encode($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);

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