Any way to return PHP `json_encode` with encode UTF-8 and not Unicode?

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Any way to return PHP json_encode with encode UTF-8 and not Unicode?

$arr=array('a'=>'á');
echo json_encode($arr);

mb_internal_encoding('UTF-8');and $arr=array_map('utf8_encode',$arr); does not fix it.

Result: {"a":"\u00e1"}

Expected result: {"a":"á"}

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