JSON getting “name”:“\u05d7\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4” for

Question

I am getting a JSON returned by Ajax from PHP json_encode I have a Hebrew characters that turned into "\u05d7\u05d1\u05e8\u05d4"
How can I turn them back into Hebrew?
(The DB is encoded UTF8 and when calling the PHP file the Hebrew is displayed correctly)

Answer 1

As Quentin pointed out, this is correct. \uXXXX is a correct escape sequence for a unicode character. In fact, if you type in into the firebug console, it will prompt you "חברה". That does look hebrew to me, although I can't tell whether it's correct.

Therefore after parsing the data you received (either with eval or JSON.parse) the character should be unescaped automatically.

Answer 2

You use any (non-broken) JSON parser.