in reply to special characters in parsed json rendering badly in browser

Try decoding it with Encode: 

use Encode;
$event{'desc'} = Encode::decode(utf8 => $decoded->{'description'});

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You mention a browser so be sure to specify the charset: 

Content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8

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Re^2: special characters in parsed json rendering badly in browser
by slugger415 (Monk) on Sep 02, 2018 at 19:49 UTC

    result of Encode:

    Wide character at C:/Strawberry/perl/lib/Encode.pm line 228.

    And the script stops there.

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Re^2: special characters in parsed json rendering badly in browser
by slugger415 (Monk) on Sep 02, 2018 at 19:58 UTC

    charset in Firefox Windows iso-8859-1

    not sure where that gets specified

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      Is the browser showing the contents of a file or the response from a web server ?

      poj
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        Contents of the file, I'm just opening it locally.

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