Tamil character using JSON php

Question

How to use Tamil character in JSON php

<?php

    /* Author : Girija S
       Date   : 4/21/2011
       Description: To Check the Special Chars when we pass in the json server 
    */

    $text = "தமிழ் அகராதி With the exception <br>of HTML 2.0's &quot;, &amp;, &lt;, and &gt;, these entities are &#039;all&#039; <br>new<br/> in HTML 4.0 and may not be supported by old browsers. Support in recent browsers is good.The following table gives the character entity <p>reference, decimal character reference, and hexadecimal character reference for markup-significant</p> and internationalization characters\n, as well as the rendering of each in your browser. Glyphs of the characters are available at the Unicode Consortium.<p>This is some text in a paragraph.</p>";

    $text =  json_encode(utf8_encode($text));
    echo $text;
    $text =  json_decode($text);
    echo $text;
?>

Answer 1

"meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8""
use this in header it will solve the problem..
if you want to store in a data base you should yous
"mysql_query ("set character_set_results='utf8'"); "
before query..
I did like that and got success for my financial tamil application

Answer 2

<?php
//Try it ... working script.. add MIME type and Font characterset in header
header('Content-type="application/json"');
header('charset="utf-8"');
$text = "தமிழ் அகராதி With the exception <br>of HTML 2.0's &amp;quot;, &amp;amp;, &amp;lt;, and &amp;gt;, these entities are &amp;#039;all&amp;#039; <br>new<br/> in HTML 4.0 and may not be supported by old browsers. Support in recent browsers is good.The following table gives the character entity <p>reference, decimal character reference, and hexadecimal character reference for markup-significant</p> and internationalization characters\n, as well as the rendering of each in your browser. Glyphs of the characters are available at the Unicode Consortium.<p>This is some text in a paragraph.</p>";
echo $text = json_encode($text);
echo '<br/><br/><br/>******************************************************************************<br/><br/>';

echo $text = json_decode($text, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT | JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT | JSON_HEX_AMP | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);
?>