title: IOS JSON escaping special characters
body: <p>I'm working in IOS and trying to pass some content to a web server via an NSURLRequest. On the server I have a PHP script setup to accept the request string and convert it into an JSON object using the Zend_JSON framework. The issue I am having is whenever the character "ø" is in any part of the request parameters, then the request string is cut short by one character.</p>
  
  <p>Request string before going to server.</p>
  
  <pre><code>[{"description":"Blah blah","type":"Russebuss","name":"Roscoe Simulator","appVersion":"1.0.20","osVersion":"IOS 5.1","phone":"5555555","country":"Østfold","udid":"bed164974ea0d436a43f3cdee0e005a1"}]
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  <p>Request string on server before any parsing</p>
  
  <pre><code>[{"description":"Blah blah","type":"Russebuss","name":"Roscoe Simulator","appVersion":"1.0.20","osVersion":"IOS 5.1","phone":"5555555","country":"Nord-Trøndelag","udid":"bed164974ea0d436a43f3cdee0e005a1"}
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  <p>Everything looks exactly the same except the final closing <code>]</code> is missing. I'm thinking it's having an issue when converting the string to UTF-8, but not sure the correct way to fix this issue. </p>
  
  <p>Does anyone have any ideas why this is happening?</p>