in reply to special characters in parsed json rendering badly in browser

Whenever you're unsure about the content/encoding of a string, use Devel::Peek: 
use Devel::Peek;
Dump $decoded->{description};

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It will tell you if the string is already utf8 decoded or not. Paste the result here, if unsure.
Also you might want to read https://perlgeek.de/en/article/encodings-and-unicode

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Re^2: special characters in parsed json rendering badly in browser
by slugger415 (Monk) on Sep 02, 2018 at 19:46 UTC

    Result of Dump:

    SV = PV(0xcdc0b8) at 0x2522f38
  REFCNT = 1
  FLAGS = (POK,pPOK,UTF8)
  PV = 0x3f44048 "Saturday, September 22, 2018\n7:30pm Doors / 8pm Per
+formances\n    $15 Guests / $10 for members: .....etc.

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    and at the end:

     CUR = 3552
  LEN = 3554

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    thanks

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