Laravel-activitylog: UTF-8 characters not saving as expected

[lflucasferreira]

I realized that this feature is not treating UTF-8 as expected.

The Properties column saves the text which contains ç and ã as \u00e7 and \u00e3, respectively.

Does anybody know what is causing this behaviour?

{"attributes":{"observation":"Altera\u00e7\u00e3o"},"old":{"observation":null}}

[Gummibeer]

It's a json column and because of this everything is JSON encoded. If you read from the properties they should be back to utf8 encoding.

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627.txt

2.5. Strings

   The representation of strings is similar to conventions used in the C
   family of programming languages.  A string begins and ends with
   quotation marks.  All Unicode characters may be placed within the
   quotation marks except for the characters that must be escaped:
   quotation mark, reverse solidus, and the control characters (U+0000
   through U+001F).

   Any character may be escaped.  If the character is in the Basic
   Multilingual Plane (U+0000 through U+FFFF), then it may be
   represented as a six-character sequence: a reverse solidus, followed
   by the lowercase letter u, followed by four hexadecimal digits that
   encode the character's code point.  The hexadecimal letters A though
   F can be upper or lowercase.  So, for example, a string containing
   only a single reverse solidus character may be represented as
   "\u005C".

   Alternatively, there are two-character sequence escape
   representations of some popular characters.  So, for example, a
   string containing only a single reverse solidus character may be
   represented more compactly as "\\".

   To escape an extended character that is not in the Basic Multilingual
   Plane, the character is represented as a twelve-character sequence,
   encoding the UTF-16 surrogate pair.  So, for example, a string
   containing only the G clef character (U+1D11E) may be represented as
   "\uD834\uDD1E".

The only solution to prevent this would be to pass the JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE constant.
https://www.php.net/manual/en/json.constants.php

But we rely on the eloquent attribute casting - so you have to check how to get it into there.

[claymore07]

just add this method to \vendor\spatie\laravel-activitylog\src\Models\Activity.php

protected function asJson($value)
{
return json_encode($value, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);
}

[nurullahguc]

just add this method to \vendor\spatie\laravel-activitylog\src\Models\Activity.php

protected function asJson($value)
{
return json_encode($value, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);
}

Tahnk u so much. Its work for me.