diff --git a/JSON/src/Parser.cpp b/JSON/src/Parser.cpp
index 54fe97239c..96de1b3362 100644
--- a/JSON/src/Parser.cpp
+++ b/JSON/src/Parser.cpp
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 #include "Poco/JSON/JSONException.h"
 #include "Poco/Ascii.h"
 #include "Poco/Token.h"
+#include "Poco/UnicodeConverter.h"
 #undef min
 #undef max
 #include <limits>
@@ -140,28 +141,28 @@ class StringToken: public Token
 				switch(c)
 				{
 				case '"' :
-					c = '"';
+					_value += '"';
 					break;
 				case '\\' :
-					c = '\\';
+					_value += '\\';
 					break;
 				case '/' :
-					c = '/';
+					_value += '/';
 					break;
 				case 'b' :
-					c = '\b';
+					_value += '\b';
 					break;
 				case 'f' :
-					c = '\f';
+					_value += '\f';
 					break;
 				case 'n' :
-					c = '\n';
+					_value += '\n';
 					break;
 				case 'r' :
-					c = '\r';
+					_value += '\r';
 					break;
 				case 't' :
-					c = '\t';
+					_value += '\t';
 					break;
 				case 'u' : // Unicode
 				{
@@ -196,7 +197,11 @@ class StringToken: public Token
 					{
 						throw JSONException("Invalid unicode");
 					}
-					c = unicode;
+					//unicode to utf8
+					std::string utf8;
+					UnicodeConverter::toUTF8((const UTF32Char*)&unicode,1,utf8);
+					_value += utf8;
+
 					break;
 				}
 				default:
@@ -204,8 +209,9 @@ class StringToken: public Token
 					throw JSONException(format("Invalid escape '%c' character used", (char) c));
 				}
 				}
+			}else{
+				_value += c;
 			}
-			_value += c;
 			c = istr.get();
 		}
 
diff --git a/JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.cpp b/JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.cpp
index dbb2521da7..f51173232a 100644
--- a/JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.cpp
+++ b/JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.cpp
@@ -859,6 +859,35 @@ void JSONTest::testTemplate()
 }
 
 
+void JSONTest::testUnicode()
+{
+	const unsigned char supp[] = {0x61, 0xE1, 0xE9, 0x78, 0xED, 0xF3, 0xFA, 0x0};
+	std::string text((const char*) supp);
+
+	std::string json = "{ \"test\" : \"a\u00E1\u00E9x\u00ED\u00F3\u00FA\" }";
+	Parser parser;
+
+	Var result;
+	try
+	{
+		DefaultHandler handler;
+		parser.setHandler(&handler);
+		parser.parse(json);
+		result = handler.result();
+	}
+	catch(JSONException& jsone)
+	{
+		std::cout << jsone.message() << std::endl;
+		assert(false);
+	}
+	assert(result.type() == typeid(Object::Ptr));
+
+	Object::Ptr object = result.extract<Object::Ptr>();
+	Var test = object->get("test");
+	assert(test.convert<std::string>() == text);
+}
+
+
 std::string JSONTest::getTestFilesPath(const std::string& type)
 {
 	std::ostringstream ostr;
@@ -918,6 +947,7 @@ CppUnit::Test* JSONTest::suite()
 	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, JSONTest, testValidJanssonFiles);
 	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, JSONTest, testInvalidJanssonFiles);
 	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, JSONTest, testTemplate);
+	CppUnit_addTest(pSuite, JSONTest, testUnicode);
 
 	return pSuite;
 }
diff --git a/JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.h b/JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.h
index 956181b09d..ac64e2fd53 100644
--- a/JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.h
+++ b/JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.h
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ class JSONTest: public CppUnit::TestCase
 	void testInvalidJanssonFiles();
 	void testTemplate();
 	void testItunes();
+	void testUnicode();
 
 	void setUp();
 	void tearDown();