in reply to special characters in parsed json rendering badly in browser
Whenever you're unsure about the content/encoding of a string, use Devel::Peek:
Also you might want to read https://perlgeek.de/en/article/encodings-and-unicode
It will tell you if the string is already utf8 decoded or not. Paste the result here, if unsure.use Devel::Peek; Dump $decoded->{description};
Also you might want to read https://perlgeek.de/en/article/encodings-and-unicode
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