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I'm trying to adapt Phil Foulston's adaptation of jQuery Autocomplete to FuelPHP. However, I have problems with the JSON Rest Controller output. I've checked that DB's charsets and Config's DB charset are in UTF8. This is my REST Controller:

class Controller_Search extends Controller_Rest
{
 public function get_titles()
 {
  $result = DB::select('*')->from('titles')->where('title', 'like', '%'.Input::get('term').'%'->limit(10)->as_object()->execute();
  
  $data['response'] = 'true'; //I don't know why Phil does this
  $data['message'] = array();

  foreach($result as $row)
  {
   $data['message'][] = array(
       'label' => $row->title,
       'value' => $row->title);
  }

  $this->response($data);
 }
}

BUG: IN THIS POST, "accented a", is seen as á. Accessing ".../search/titles.json?term=scan", the output changes "á" with "\u00e1":

{"response":"true","message":[{"label":"Esc\u00e1ndalo en Bohemia","value":"Esc\u00e1ndalo en Bohemia"},{"label":"A Scandal in Bohemia","value":"A Scandal in Bohemia"}]}

BUT if I print the array everything looks fine!

Array
(
    [response] => true
    [message] => Array
        (
            [0] => Array
                (
                    [label] => Escándalo en Bohemia
                    [value] => Escándalo en Bohemia
                )

            [1] => Array
                (
                    [label] => A Scandal in Bohemia
                    [value] => A Scandal in Bohemia
                )
        )
)

Any suggestion on where I'm making the mistake?