I'm using gson to convert a json string to a Java-Object. The value of result2 is exactly the same as the value of result1. (Copied from debugger; Backslashs added) The following exception is thrown while converting result1: com.google.gson.JsonSyntaxException: com.google.gson.stream.MalformedJsonException: Expected EOF at line 1 column 170 Converting result2 works fine. The json string is valid a