Some characters such as russian letters are converted which makes it impossible to perform a search query from website

[smylmrz]

I use Azerbaijani and Russian letters on my website. Sometimes some letters are converted to something like this {"az":"Velosiped","ru":"\u0412\u0435\u043b\u043e\u0441\u0438\u043f\u0435\u0434"} but sometimes it doesn't do this. I thought maybe it's some specific letters but it's not the case. I need to manually change it back to how it should be, but I've thousands of data. They display correctly on the website, but a user can't do a search because it won't match.

[hdogan]

You can fork and replace that line:

https://github.com/spatie/laravel-translatable/blob/master/src/HasTranslations.php#L110

with:

$this->attributes[$key] = json_encode($translations, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);

and than use your forked repo instead of original package.

[hdogan]

I think it's better and easier to extend trait instead of fork and use your own package.

Here is the patched trait:

PS: It also contains patch for the issue #290. You can remove that line if you don't want it to behave like that.

<?php

namespace App\Traits;

use Illuminate\Support\Str;
use Spatie\Translatable\Events\TranslationHasBeenSet;
use Spatie\Translatable\HasTranslations;

trait HasTranslationsFixed
{
    use HasTranslations {
        HasTranslations::setTranslation as faultySetTranslation;
    }

    public function setTranslation(string $key, string $locale, $value): self
    {
        $this->guardAgainstNonTranslatableAttribute($key);

        $translations = $this->getTranslations($key);
        $oldValue     = $translations[$locale] ?? '';

        if ($this->hasSetMutator($key)) {
            $method = 'set' . Str::studly($key) . 'Attribute';

            $this->{$method}($value, $locale);

            $value = $this->attributes[$key];
        }

        $translations[$locale] = $value;

        // fixes https://github.com/spatie/laravel-translatable/discussions/290
        $translations = array_filter($translations, function ($value) {
            return $value !== null;
        });

        // fixes https://github.com/spatie/laravel-translatable/discussions/273
        $this->attributes[$key] = json_encode($translations, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);
        // $this->attributes[$key] = $this->asJson($translations);

        event(new TranslationHasBeenSet($this, $key, $locale, $oldValue, $value));

        return $this;
    }
}

[nelson6e65]

This should be available in config. 🤔

[nelson6e65]

You can, instead, just override asJson() method in addition to customization recommended in README:

namespace App\Traits;
use Spatie\Translatable\HasTranslations as BaseHasTranslations;

trait HasTranslations
{
    use BaseHasTranslations;
   
   // ...    
    protected function asJson($value)
    {
        return json_encode($value, JSON_UNESCAPED_UNICODE);
    }
}

Or just use another trait for asJson().

https://stackoverflow.com/a/38249353/7242535