title: PHP json_encode json_decode UTF-8
body: <p>How can I save a json-encoded string with international characters to the databse and then parse the decoded string in the browser?</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;?php           
      $string = "très agréable";  
      // to the database 
      $j_encoded = json_encode(utf8_encode($string)); 
      // get from Database 
      $j_decoded = json_decode($j_encoded); 
  ?&gt;    
  &lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="fr" lang="fr"&gt;
      &lt;?= $j_decoded ?&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt; 
  </code></pre>