diff --git a/ara/server/settings.py b/ara/server/settings.py
index e24f45f6..f7734628 100644
--- a/ara/server/settings.py
+++ b/ara/server/settings.py
@@ -230,6 +230,7 @@ REST_FRAMEWORK = {
     "DEFAULT_AUTHENTICATION_CLASSES": ("rest_framework.authentication.BasicAuthentication",),
     "DEFAULT_PERMISSION_CLASSES": ("ara.api.auth.APIAccessPermission",),
     "TEST_REQUEST_DEFAULT_FORMAT": "json",
+    "UNICODE_JSON": False,
 }
 
 ARA_SETTINGS = os.getenv("ARA_SETTINGS", DEFAULT_SETTINGS)
diff --git a/ara/ui/views.py b/ara/ui/views.py
index ab3925eb..8add9ce4 100644
--- a/ara/ui/views.py
+++ b/ara/ui/views.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+import codecs
+
 from rest_framework import generics
 from rest_framework.renderers import TemplateHTMLRenderer
 from rest_framework.response import Response
@@ -90,6 +92,8 @@ class Result(generics.RetrieveAPIView):
     template_name = "result.html"
 
     def get(self, request, *args, **kwargs):
+        # Results can contain a wide array of non-ascii or binary characters, escape them
+        codecs.register_error("strict", codecs.lookup_error("surrogateescape"))
         result = self.get_object()
         serializer = serializers.DetailedResultSerializer(result)
         return Response({"result": serializer.data})
diff --git a/tests/integration/smoke.yaml b/tests/integration/smoke.yaml
index e4e4b3dd..23017337 100644
--- a/tests/integration/smoke.yaml
+++ b/tests/integration/smoke.yaml
@@ -65,6 +65,6 @@
         - untag
         - verytag
 
-    - name: Echo a binary string
+    - name: Echo the �abc binary string
       command: echo -e '\x80abc'
       changed_when: false