How to translate json text u0418u0432u * into Russian letters?

Question

PHP

Hello!
I take data from the database, output it, everything would be fine, but any Russian word is displayed as u0418. I dug through a bunch of forums, but did not get a positive result.
Tried using the following decoding option:

$customerArray = json_decode($query['customer'], true);
print_r($customerArray['customer_name']); // u0418u0432u0430u043du044bu0447

Of course, the option didn't work. HELP!
Thank you!

Answer 1

php.net/manual/ru/json.constants.php
JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE

Answer 2

This is UTF 8 encoding, look in the connection settings to the database in what format the file is on the server, well, and so on.

Answer 3

As Vlad Malinichev said , you need the JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE flag.
Besides it, there are a few more useful ones:

json_encode($data, JSON_HEX_TAG | JSON_HEX_APOS | JSON_HEX_QUOT | JSON_HEX_AMP | JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE)