Laravel 5, Unicode characters instead of Russian letters, how to fix?

Question

Laravel

I am rewriting the site from Django to Laravel 5. The database remains the same. But when outputting, Russian letters are not yet obtained, why?

Answer 1

this is how it should be: this is json encoding according to the standard - ideone.com/eVOAQO
you output a regular json string, which is meaningless.
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