AlpineJS data in a blade view

[trim raptor]

Doing something like...

<div x-data="{ loading: false, items: {{ $items }} }"></div>

... works, but characters like - (en dash) show up like –.

How do I fix this? Using {!! $items !!}} or @json($items) did not fix it.

It seemed a bit further away then I thought; using html_entity_decode did the trick.

[zenith estuary]

@trim raptor You will want to do this: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/blade#rendering-json