PHP json_decode cyrillic problem?

Question

PHP

Good afternoon, there was a problem with the fact that when contacting the server, the ANSWER from it comes in json format and among them there may be Russian letters, as a result of which the standard json_decode function does not work, is it possible to fix this somehow? google didn't come up with anything clear.

Answer 1

<?php
$data_json = utf8_encode($data_json); 
$results = json_decode($data_json);

Answer 2

encode Cyrillic with \uABCD; escape sequences. In general, php itself should do this, check the options for one thing.

Answer 3

Most likely, you have windows-1251? Try in UTF-8.