Description of the change

This PR fixes a character encoding issue when retrieving persisted payloads where strings weren't being read as UTF8 resulting in garbled strings.

Type of change

• Bug fix (non-breaking change that fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change that adds functionality)
• Breaking change (fix or feature that would cause existing functionality to not work as expected)
• Maintenance
• New release

Related issues

• SC-127180
• Fixes String Encoding Error for ’ (forward tick character) (3.0.0) #294
• Fixes Emojis are not rendering correctly in the Dashboard/items #295

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Development

• Lint rules pass locally
• The code changed/added as part of this pull request has been covered with tests
• All tests related to the changed code pass in development

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• "Ready for review" label attached to the PR and reviewers assigned
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