unfortunately° are - like already said - decode_json and encode_json defaulting to utf8-encoded octet-streams

you need to use the object interface

use v5.12;
use warnings;
use Devel::Peek;
use Data::Dump qw/pp/;
use JSON::XS;
use utf8;

my $str = "\x{feff}"
  . '["whät","över"]';                  # Internal Unicode b/c of use 
+utf8

Dump($str);                             # hence shows UTF8 flag

$str =~ s/^\x{feff}//;                  # strip BOM by Unicode code-po
+int

Dump($str);                             # shows UTF8 flag

my $JSON = JSON::XS->new;               # coder for all unicode in/out

my $data = $JSON->decode($str);

warn pp '$data: ', $data;               # ["wh\xE4t", "\xF6ver"]
                                        # NB: \xE4, \xF6 correct codep
+oints for umlauts 
                                        # even if each character neede
+d 2 bytes

my $str2 = $JSON->encode($data);        # roundtrip

Dump($str2);                            # shows UTF8 flag

warn '$str eq $str2: ', $str eq $str2;  # same

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SV = PV(0x6bcea8) at 0x26485f0
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x28229e8 "\357\273\277[\"wh\303\244t\",\"\303\266ver\"]"\0 [UT
+F8 "\x{feff}["wh\x{e4}t","\x{f6}ver"]"]
  CUR = 20
  LEN = 22
SV = PV(0x6bcea8) at 0x26485f0
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x28227e8 "[\"wh\303\244t\",\"\303\266ver\"]"\0 [UTF8 "["wh\x{e
+4}t","\x{f6}ver"]"]
  CUR = 17
  LEN = 24
("\$data: ", ["wh\xE4t", "\xF6ver"]) at d:/perl/pm/t_devel_peek.pl lin
+e 21.
SV = PV(0x6bd158) at 0x27482a0
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x281d9c8 "[\"wh\303\244t\",\"\303\266ver\"]"\0 [UTF8 "["wh\x{e
+4}t","\x{f6}ver"]"]
  CUR = 17
  LEN = 66
$str eq $str2: 1 at d:/perl/pm/t_devel_peek.pl line 28.

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Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the 𐍀𐌴𐍂𐌻 Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

°) or fortunately? depends on the perspective

In reply to Re^11: Rogue character(s) at start of JSON file (BOM; dumping references) by LanX
in thread Rogue character(s) at start of JSON file by Bod

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