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    <p>I am trying to save some data on the server but finding some encoding problems.</p> <p>This is how I am sending my objects to PHP (which works fine but I don't think the contentType is actually doing anything):</p> <pre><code>$.post( 'myfile.php', { contentType: "application/x-www-form-urlencoded;charset=utf-8", data : myData }, function (data, textStatus, jqXHR){ //some code here } ); </code></pre> <p>and then in PHP (myfile.php):</p> <pre><code>&lt;?php header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8'); $file = 'data/theData.txt'; //the file to edit $current = file_get_contents($file); // Open the file to get existing content $a2 = json_decode( $current, true ); $data = $_POST['data']; //the data from the webpage $res = array_merge_recursive( $data, $a2 ); $resJson = json_encode( $res ); // Write the contents back to the file file_put_contents($file, $resJson); ?&gt; </code></pre> <p>As you can see I am getting the original contents of the file and decoding the json. I am then merging the result with the data sent from the webpage before re-encoding in json and put the contents back. </p> <p>This all works as expected. However, at one point in my Jquery the data sent contains a wide variety of symbols like "/ ö é ł Ż ę"</p> <p>When the file is saved each '/' has an escape character '\' in front of it and likewise the 'é' for example is '\u00e9' </p> <p>How do I override this? Should I try to convert it properly in the PHP or is their a way in the JQuery to convert back to the correct format after I have $.get('data/theData.txt'?</p> <p>Any light shed on this issue is greatly appreciated! Please excuse the poor variable names.</p>
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    1. COpossible duplicate of [Convert a JSON into a UTF-8 string](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4409039/convert-a-json-into-a-utf-8-string)
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    3. COuse base64_encode() on the $_POST value and give it to us. This preserves the string binary safe for us, so we can tell you if its utf8 or not.
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