How to decode a character like "\u0432" in php?

Question

PHP

Given:
MySQL database in utf8 encoding
Table in utf8 encoding
Page with results output in utf8 encoding
When accessing the database, I set the following parameters:

mysql_query("SET NAMES 'utf8'");  
mysql_query("SET CHARACTER SET 'utf8'");
mysql_query("SET SESSION collation_connection = 'utf8_general_ci'");

Question:
When I select the word "out", I get this "\u0432\u044b\u0445".
Why is this and how can this be translated into a readable form in PHP?

Answer 1

I figured it out, I processed the output array with the json_encode function, it ruined all the Russian characters. Although the locale is ru_RU.UTF8

Answer 2

Do you have the page exactly in utf-8? :)
Look, maybe other titles are given somewhere

Answer 3

Well, since everything is so, then check the script file for belonging to utf-8
Check the application config
Mysql connection config
At the very least, php and mysql configs directly

Answer 4

Not spoiled, but coded.
Do you have the "out" coded there?
unicode-table.com/ru/#0432
utf8_decode should help, but something is not right with you. Everything should work like this...