https://github.com/comewalk/google-api-perl-client/issues/23 --- lib/Google/API/Method.pm.orig 2014-10-18 14:08:34.000000000 +0400 +++ lib/Google/API/Method.pm 2016-02-07 18:49:33.000000000 +0300 @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ $request = HTTP::Request->new($http_method => $uri); if ($self->{opt}{body}) { $request->content_type('application/json'); - $request->content($self->{json_parser}->encode($self->{opt}{body})); + $request->content(encode_utf8($self->{json_parser}->encode($self->{opt}{body}))); } else { $request->content_length(0); }