+# Why do crappy perl libraries always insist on using an "Object Oriented" interface
+# for things where this does not make any sense at all?
+my $crappyjsonoo = JSON->new()->latin1(); # Note: has to be latin1 instead of utf8
+# for now, because the strings we get from the DB are WTF8, but are not marked
+# as such. Therefore, we must not tell the JSON module to do utf8(), because
+# otherwise it would encode the WTF8 twice.
+# This will change with DBI::Pg modules >3 where UTF8 is properly handled.
+if ($verblev > 0) {
+ $crappyjsonoo = $crappyjsonoo->pretty();
+}