如何在php中的json_decode（）中显示特殊字符，如“Ñ”

I want to display the name from the database but the name contains "Ñ" and it results "Null"

I'm using this code

    $result = array();

    $sth = $dbcon->prepare("MY SELECT CODE HERE");
    $sth->execute();
            while($row_count = $sth->fetch(PDO::FETCH_ASSOC)){
        $result[] = $row_count;
            }
    echo json_encode($result);

And here is the result.. as you can see the null in name because of the "Ñ" cuz this string has and Ñ in the table

[{"emp_id":"12561-2013","name":null,"

Use json_encode with JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE flag, ie., json_encode($result, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);