Weird encoding for Brazil city names

[noriods]

Thanks for a great package! It works well for generating a list of Brazillian states.

I'm just struggling with the cities. This doesn't work:

Countries::where('name.common', 'Brazil')
  ->first()
  ->hydrateCities()
  ->cities
  ->where('adm1name', 'Amapá')
  ->pluck('name')
  ->toArray();

But this does:

Countries::where('name.common', 'Brazil')
  ->first()
  ->hydrateCities()
  ->cities
  ->where('adm1name', 'Amapá')
  ->pluck('name')
  ->toArray();

I'm on Laravel 7, PHP 7.4.

What can I change in what I'm doing to get it to filter the cities by the state name?

[noriods]

It seems like data/cities/default/bra.json has an encoding problem.

It has this for São Paulo: S\u00c3\u00a3o Paulo

Whereas data/states/default/bra.json has this: S\u00e3o Paulo (Which works.)

Hope this helps.

[krutyosila]

utf8_decode($value)