title: Php/json: decode utf8?
body: <p>I store a json string that contains some (chinese ?) characters in a mysql database.
  Example of what's in the database:</p>
  
  <pre><code>normal.text.\u8bf1\u60d1.rest.of.text
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>On my PHP page I just do a json_decode of what I receive from mysql, but it doesn't display right, it shows things like "½±è§�"</p>
  
  <p>I've tried to execute the "SET NAMES 'utf8'" query at the beginning of my file, didn't change anything.
  I already have the following header on my webpage:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And of course all my php files are encoded in UTF-8.</p>
  
  <p>Do you have any idea how to display these "\uXXXX" characters nicely?</p>