Is there an existing perl module that will convert special characters into the \uXXXX form?

You could do something like this: 

my $s = "téxt";

$s =~ s/([^\x20-\x7e])/sprintf '\u%04x', ord($1)/ge;

print $s;  # t\u00e9xt

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This will convert everything outside of the printable ASCII range to \uXXXX notation.

You might need to decode your input strings into Perl's internal Unicode representation, depending on which encoding they're originally in.

In reply to Re: Handling special characters in JSON by Anonyrnous Monk
in thread Handling special characters in JSON by mcm1303

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