in reply to JSON Problems

sounds like upstream JSON parser is broken and/or you're not sending the correct bytes, read perlunitut: Unicode in Perl#I/O flow (the actual 5 minute tutorial)

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Re^2: JSON Problems
by nathanlong85 (Initiate) on Oct 18, 2012 at 16:29 UTC
    Looks like encode/decode fixed my problem. I had assumed since the input creating my json string was already coming from a source using UTF-8 and I was sending to a destination using UTF-8 that it wouldn't be an issue... thanks for that link, it was really helpful!