diff --git a/JSON/src/Parser.cpp b/JSON/src/Parser.cpp
index 96de1b336..54fe97239 100644
--- a/JSON/src/Parser.cpp
+++ b/JSON/src/Parser.cpp
@@ -38,7 +38,6 @@
 #include "Poco/JSON/JSONException.h"
 #include "Poco/Ascii.h"
 #include "Poco/Token.h"
-#include "Poco/UnicodeConverter.h"
 #undef min
 #undef max
 #include <limits>
@@ -141,28 +140,28 @@ public:
 				switch(c)
 				{
 				case '"' :
-					_value += '"';
+					c = '"';
 					break;
 				case '\\' :
-					_value += '\\';
+					c = '\\';
 					break;
 				case '/' :
-					_value += '/';
+					c = '/';
 					break;
 				case 'b' :
-					_value += '\b';
+					c = '\b';
 					break;
 				case 'f' :
-					_value += '\f';
+					c = '\f';
 					break;
 				case 'n' :
-					_value += '\n';
+					c = '\n';
 					break;
 				case 'r' :
-					_value += '\r';
+					c = '\r';
 					break;
 				case 't' :
-					_value += '\t';
+					c = '\t';
 					break;
 				case 'u' : // Unicode
 				{
@@ -197,11 +196,7 @@ public:
 					{
 						throw JSONException("Invalid unicode");
 					}
-					//unicode to utf8
-					std::string utf8;
-					UnicodeConverter::toUTF8((const UTF32Char*)&unicode,1,utf8);
-					_value += utf8;
-
+					c = unicode;
 					break;
 				}
 				default:
@@ -209,9 +204,8 @@ public:
 					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 f51173232..dbb2521da 100644
--- a/JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.cpp
+++ b/JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.cpp
@@ -859,35 +859,6 @@ 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;
@@ -947,7 +918,6 @@ 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 ac64e2fd5..956181b09 100644
--- a/JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.h
+++ b/JSON/testsuite/src/JSONTest.h
@@ -76,7 +76,6 @@ public:
 	void testInvalidJanssonFiles();
 	void testTemplate();
 	void testItunes();
-	void testUnicode();
 
 	void setUp();
 	void tearDown();