I have a simple php structure with 3 nested arrays.

I do not use particular objects and I build myself the arrays with 2 nested loops.

Here is a sample of the var_dump of the array I want to convert to Json.

array (size=2)
  'tram B' => 
    array (size=2)
      0 => 
        array (size=3)
          'name' => string 'Ile Verte' (length=9)
          'distance' => int 298
          'stationID' => int 762
      1 => 
        array (size=3)
          'name' => string 'La Tronche Hôpital' (length=18)
          'distance' => int 425
          'stationID' => int 771
  16 => 
    array (size=4)
      0 => 
        array (size=3)
          'name' => string 'Bastille' (length=8)
          'distance' => int 531
          'stationID' => int 397
      1 => 
        array (size=3)
          'name' => string 'Xavier Jouvin' (length=13)
          'distance' => int 589
          'stationID' => int 438

In another script I have a similar structure and [tag:json_encode ]works fine. So I don’t understand why [tag:json_encode] won’t work here.

Edit : there seems to be a problem with the encoding. When mb_detect_encoding returns ASCII, the [tag:json_encode] works but when it returns UTF8, it doesn’t work anymore.

Edit2 : json_last_error() returns JSON_ERROR_UTF8 which means : Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded.