What do you mean by "view the JSON string"? Do you mean you print it? Do you print it using Data::Dumper?

If you want to turn the JSON back into a proper data structure, I suggest you use JSON or JSON::XS to do that. You might need to unescape the string before doing that if it contains doubled backslashes, so that it is proper JSON:

use JSON 'decode_json';
use Data::Dumper;

my $mangled_json = '{ "hex_code":"\\x{a5}" }';
print $mangled_json;
my $json = $mangled_json;
$json =~ s!\\\\!\\!g;
print $json;

my $structure = decode_json( $json );
$Data::Dumper::Useqq = 1;
print Dumper $structure;

binmode STDOUT, ':encoding(UTF-8)'; # well, hopefully, your terminal u
+nderstands UTF-8
print $structure->{'hex_code'};

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