diff --git a/src/components/JsonViewer/unipika/unipika.ts b/src/components/JsonViewer/unipika/unipika.ts
index 9fd520180..7651419c3 100644
--- a/src/components/JsonViewer/unipika/unipika.ts
+++ b/src/components/JsonViewer/unipika/unipika.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ export const defaultUnipikaSettings = {
     showDecoded: true,
     binaryAsHex: false,
     indent: 2,
+    decodeUTF8: false,
 };
 
 export function unipikaConvert(value: unknown) {