Error parsing JSON in API when it has word with special character

[renatodinhani]

Hi, I have the following JSON to create a new IT Service, but the word "Aplicação" causes an ""Invalid JSON. An error occurred on the server while parsing the JSON text." error.

If I change this word to other without special chars, it works fine.

{
"id":1,
"method":"service.create",
"params":{
"showsla":1,
"sortorder":0,
"goodsla":99.99,
"name":"Aplicação",
"parentid":"0",
"algorithm":1
},
"jsonrpc":"2.0",
"auth":"thesecretauth"
}

There is a way to pass a word with special char in the API? When I use the web interface, it works perfectly.

[Pavels]

Strange, it should handle special characters. Could you check what version of PHP you are running and do you have the JSON extension available?

As a work around you can try to encode the text as unicode as described in the JSON spec http://www.json.org/, this format is supported as well.