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From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:10:00 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Initial plan


From 61c53049955b134f884f01d2ce4a620509b24858 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "copilot-swe-agent[bot]" <198982749+Copilot@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:15:45 +0000
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Fix JsonFormatter to preserve Unicode output

Co-authored-by: sfmskywalker <938393+sfmskywalker@users.noreply.github.com>
---
 .../Elsa.Common/Services/JsonFormatter.cs     |  9 +++++++--
 .../JsonFormatterTests.cs                     | 20 +++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test/unit/Elsa.Common.UnitTests/JsonFormatterTests.cs

diff --git a/src/modules/Elsa.Common/Services/JsonFormatter.cs b/src/modules/Elsa.Common/Services/JsonFormatter.cs
index d543942c22..b8265a56a6 100644
--- a/src/modules/Elsa.Common/Services/JsonFormatter.cs
+++ b/src/modules/Elsa.Common/Services/JsonFormatter.cs
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
+using System.Text.Encodings.Web;
 using System.Text.Json;
 using System.Text.Json.Serialization;
+using System.Text.Unicode;
 
 namespace Elsa.Common.Services;
 
@@ -10,14 +12,17 @@ public class JsonFormatter : IFormatter
     
     public JsonFormatter()
     {
-        _options = new JsonSerializerOptions();
+        _options = new JsonSerializerOptions
+        {
+            Encoder = JavaScriptEncoder.Create(UnicodeRanges.All)
+        };
         _options.Converters.Add(new JsonStringEnumConverter());
     }
     
     /// <inheritdoc />
     public ValueTask<string> ToStringAsync(object value, CancellationToken cancellationToken = default)
     {
-        var json = JsonSerializer.Serialize(value);
+        var json = JsonSerializer.Serialize(value, _options);
         return ValueTask.FromResult(json);
     }
 
diff --git a/test/unit/Elsa.Common.UnitTests/JsonFormatterTests.cs b/test/unit/Elsa.Common.UnitTests/JsonFormatterTests.cs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..6844c7f835
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/unit/Elsa.Common.UnitTests/JsonFormatterTests.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+using Elsa.Common.Services;
+
+namespace Elsa.Common.UnitTests;
+
+public class JsonFormatterTests
+{
+    [Fact]
+    public async Task ToStringAsync_DoesNotEscapeUnicodeCharacters()
+    {
+        var formatter = new JsonFormatter();
+        var value = new { Name = "ÆØÅ" };
+
+        var json = await formatter.ToStringAsync(value);
+
+        Assert.Contains("ÆØÅ", json);
+        Assert.DoesNotContain(@"\u00C6", json, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+        Assert.DoesNotContain(@"\u00D8", json, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+        Assert.DoesNotContain(@"\u00C5", json, StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase);
+    }
+}