5.3.14 json bug

[Highland]

Well, json_encode is apparently broken in 5.3.14. There's a behavior change patch that was withdrawn, but only for 5.4, not 5.3

https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=61537

Right now, I have several JSON AJAX calls that are failing because of some old legacy data (our database pre-dates UTF-8 and we tried to clean up data but some slipped through).
Is there any chance of getting a patch to 5.3.14 from this patch?
https://github.com/srgoogleguy/php-src/ ... 3d7cd7cdbf