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I had a very similar issue in Lintian's database a few weeks ago. It was caused by uploading (properly UTF-8 encoded) JSON to Postgres. The Perl driver DBD::Pg encoded the data again and picked the 7-bit clean escape sequences according to RFC4627, which is what I believe you are seeing. They are further described here: https://metacpan.org/pod/JSON::PP#ascii My solution was to disable the automatic decoding layer in DBD::Pg via 'pg_enable_utf8 => 0'. It mirrors how I handle encoding elsewhere (i.e. explicitly and without PerlIO, Bug#972878) and works great, but did not enjoy much support on IRC in either the Perl or the Postgres communities.. Kind regards Felix Lechner