title: json_encode() non utf-8 strings?
body: <p>So I have an array of strings, and all of the strings are using the system default <strong>ANSI</strong> encoding and were pulled from a SQL database. So there are 256 different possible character byte values (single byte encoding).<br/>
  Is there a way I can get <code>json_encode()</code> to work and display these characters instead of having to use <code>utf8_encode()</code> on all of my strings and ending up with stuff like <code>\u0082</code>? </p>
  
  <p>Or is that the standard for JSON? </p>