Could you enlighten me on this related issue?

I have a json string from perl (encoded with to_json) which goes to my Javascript code. When I view the json string, it looks like this: 
{ "hex_code":"\\x{a5}" }

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I want to display the hex_code as an actual symbol in an input field. But what I see in the input field is '\x{a5}' and not the symbol. In Javascript when I set a variable like this: 
var hex_code = '\x{a5}';
document.getElementById('some_field').value = hex_code;

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The symbol gets displayed in the input field.

What do I need to in the perl code (or in the Javascript) to display the hex code as symbol in the input field?

I'm quite confused by this. Hope you can shed some light :)

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