A wrapper to safely encode UTF-8 in JSON

wrapper_json_encode.php

<?php

/**
 * Wrapper to handle JSON errors and resolve UTF-8 errors
 * 
 * @param mixed
 * @param int
 * @param int
 * @param bool
 * @return string|false
 * @throw Exception
 * 
 * @link https://stackoverflow.com/a/26760943
 * @link https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.json-last-error.php#refsect1-function.json-last-error-returnvalues
 */
function safe_json_encode($value, $options = 0, $depth = 512, $utfErrorFlag = false) {
    $encoded = json_encode($value, $options, $depth);

    $json_error = json_last_error();
    switch ($json_error) {
        // Try to resolve the UTF-8 error
        case JSON_ERROR_UTF8:
            $clean = utf8ize($value);
            if ($utfErrorFlag) {
                throw new Exception('Malformed UTF-8 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded', $json_error);
            }
            return safe_json_encode($clean, $options, $depth, true);

        // No error
        case JSON_ERROR_NONE:
            return $encoded;

        // Throw exceptions for all other errors
        case JSON_ERROR_DEPTH:
            throw new Exception('Maximum stack depth exceeded', $json_error);
        case JSON_ERROR_STATE_MISMATCH:
            throw new Exception('Underflow or the modes mismatch', $json_error);
        case JSON_ERROR_CTRL_CHAR:
            throw new Exception('Unexpected control character found', $json_error);
        case JSON_ERROR_SYNTAX:
            throw new Exception('Syntax error, malformed JSON', $json_error);
        case JSON_ERROR_RECURSION:
            throw new Exception('One or more recursive references in the value to be encoded', $json_error);
        case JSON_ERROR_INF_OR_NAN:
            throw new Exception('One or more NAN or INF values in the value to be encoded', $json_error);
        case JSON_ERROR_UNSUPPORTED_TYPE:
            throw new Exception('A value of a type that cannot be encoded was given', $json_error);
        case JSON_ERROR_INVALID_PROPERTY_NAME:
            throw new Exception('A property name that cannot be encoded was given', $json_error);
        case JSON_ERROR_UTF16:
            throw new Exception('Malformed UTF-16 characters, possibly incorrectly encoded', $json_error);
        default:
            throw new Exception('Unknown error', $json_error);

    }
}

/**
 * Encode value in UTF-8
 * 
 * @param array|string
 * @return mixed
 * 
 * @link https://stackoverflow.com/a/26760943
 */
function utf8ize($mixed) {
    if (is_array($mixed)) {
        foreach ($mixed as $key => $value) {
            $mixed[$key] = utf8ize($value);
        }
    } else if (is_string ($mixed)) {
        return utf8_encode($mixed);
    }
    return $mixed;
}