[Fixed v1.5.1] PHP Warning: json_encode(): Invalid UTF-8 sequence in argument in...

[Kim]

Paul - I think it was yesterday - but someone else posted about a json_encode problem - turned out to be something with the hosting.

[paulm]

Thanks Kim, but I think you mean the post about the Fatal error undefined function: json_encode(), which seems quite a different problem.

In case it's related to the json version, the installed version is 1.2.1

[paulm]

According to the json_encode documentation on php.net:

This function only works with UTF-8 encoded data.

So it seems that the problem is the latin encoding combined with the json_encode function.

Does this mean it's required to convert the database to UTF8 when upgrading to Zen Cart 1.5.0 ? I thought I read somewhere this conversion wasn't required.