title: JSON output accents issue
body: <p>I've been searching around for like 3 hours and I know there are a lot of questions like this one that have already been asked, but I haven't found any solution that works for me with my problem when trying to output accented characters of the result by a SELECT query on my database.</p>
  
  <pre><code> $itemsList = array();
   while($row = mysql_fetch_assoc($res)){
      $itemsList[Items][] = ($row);
   }
   echo json_encode($itemsList);
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This will output :</p>
  
  <pre><code>{"Items":  [
  
  {"user_name":"misterP", 
  
  "comment":"\u00c3\u00a9t\u00c3\u00a9",
  
  "image_name":"403885300736874.jpg"}]}
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>But I need to output the accents, like this : </p>
  
  <pre><code>{"Items":  [
  
  {"user_name":"misterP", 
  
  "comment":"été",
  
  "image_name":"403885300736874.jpg"}]}
  </code></pre>
  
  <ul>
  <li>My database and tables have interclassement utf8_general_ci</li>
  <li>The datas inserted in my database are utf8_encoded</li>
  <li>my php script is in Unicode (UTF-8)</li>
  <li>I did " mysql_set_charset( 'utf8' ); " before the SELECT on my database</li>
  <li>If this can help someone : in y database, the word "été" is : "Ã©tÃ©"</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>So I really don't know what to do now, I am really stuck with the accents and i can't get it work. Thanks in advance ! </p>