How to deal with special chars in php

Question

I load a UTF-8 encoded json file using php like this:

$string = file_get_contents("_locales/de/messages.json");

When I echo $string I get chars like

delete_context":{ "message": "Löschen" }

where it should be Löschen.

Any idea how to fix that?

Answer 1

Possible resolution: php: file_get_contents encoding problem