json - Converting encoded chars back to original character - PHP -
my database returns following json special chars. need convert original chars: { "event_id":"5153", "name":"event test", "description":"persönlichkeit universität"", "start_time":"2013-04-24 9:00 est", "end_time":"2013-04-24 5:00 pm est" } i want strip out html chars. , convert chars ö original chars. description in above json should this persönlichkeit universität" i doing array_walk on array before encoding array json, , strip_tags on each element. fine. (that resulted in above json.). to chars back, tried: 1. encoding again utf8_encode 2. htmlspecialchars_decode 3. html_entity_decode //this 1 eliminating character altogether. but nothing gave original char back. any ideas? update: i tried this. description field returns null array_walk_recursive($results, function (&...