How json encode arabic in laravel 5.2 json response?

Question

My application supporting multiple language.

My Controller,

 public function index(Request $request) {
    return DB::table('offer_types')
                    ->join('offer_type_details', 'offer_type_details.offer_types_id', '=', 'offer_types.id')
                    ->where('offer_type_details.languages_id', $request->language_id ? $request->language_id : 1)
                    ->get();
}

In case of Arabic, it returns following json,

    [{
    "id": 1,
    "description": "desc",
    "offer_types_id": 1,
    "languages_id": 2,
    "title": "\u062d\u0632\u0645"
}, {
    "id": 2,
    "description": "desc",
    "offer_types_id": 2,
    "languages_id": 2,
    "title": "\u0641\u0646\u0627\u062f\u0642"
}]

How can I encode this arabic value in Laravel 5.2?

That can be done by sending the following HTTP header;`header('Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8');` — Hardy Mathew, Mar 15 '16 at 15:47
also check with this link : http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7381900/php-decoding-and-encoding-json-with-unicode-characters — Hardy Mathew, Mar 15 '16 at 15:52

Alexey Mezenin · Accepted Answer · 2016-03-15T15:54:28.523

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Try to do this:

$data = DB::table('offer_types')
                    ->join('offer_type_details', 'offer_type_details.offer_types_id', '=', 'offer_types.id')
                    ->where('offer_type_details.languages_id', $request->language_id ? $request->language_id : 1)
                    ->get();

return Response::json($data, 200, [], JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);

Or

return response()->json($data, 200, [], JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);

edited Mar 15 '16 at 15:54

answered Mar 15 '16 at 15:48

Alexey Mezenin

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second one worked fine.. thanks... is there any method to set globally? – gsk Mar 15 '16 at 16:00
What do you mean? If you're asking about `Response::`, you could try to use `\Response::`. – Alexey Mezenin Mar 15 '16 at 16:03
no.. I dont want to repeat in every controller, I am developing APIs. So is there any method to set encoding globally in application? – gsk Mar 15 '16 at 16:20
I think it's the easiest and more readable way to do this, but if you really want to do this globally, you could try this solution: https://laracasts.com/discuss/channels/laravel/how-to-prevent-laravel-from-returning-escaped-json-data – Alexey Mezenin Mar 15 '16 at 16:27

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 15 '16 at 15:47

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Do JSON encode with JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE flag.

json_encode($multibyte_string, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);

It encodes multibyte Unicode characters literally. So the Unicode characters will not be escaped like \uXXXX.

answered Mar 15 '16 at 15:47

Harikrishnan

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How json encode arabic in laravel 5.2 json response?

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