diff --git a/source/web-service/tests/test_routes_ingest.py b/source/web-service/tests/test_routes_ingest.py
index 44bafc8b..54506302 100644
--- a/source/web-service/tests/test_routes_ingest.py
+++ b/source/web-service/tests/test_routes_ingest.py
@@ -154,6 +154,37 @@ def test_ingest_single(self, client_no_rdf, namespace, auth_token, test_db_no_rd
         assert response.status_code == 200
         assert b"object/12345" in response.data
 
+    def test_ingest_unicode(self, client_no_rdf, namespace, auth_token, test_db_no_rdf):
+        data = {
+            "id": "unicodetest/1",
+            "tags": [
+                {
+                    "id": "123",
+                    "name": "Airport",
+                    "name_en": "Airport",
+                    "name_cn": "机场",
+                    "display": False,
+                }
+            ],
+        }
+
+        # Python 3.5+ (maybe earlier) handles UTF-8 by default
+        response = client_no_rdf.post(
+            f"/{namespace}/ingest",
+            data=json.dumps(data),
+            headers={"Authorization": "Bearer " + auth_token},
+        )
+        assert response.status_code == 200
+        assert b"unicodetest/1" in response.data
+
+        response = client_no_rdf.get(f"/{namespace}/unicodetest/1")
+        assert response.status_code == 200
+
+        rdoc = response.json
+
+        # check unicode
+        assert rdoc["tags"][0]["name_cn"] == "机场"
+
     def test_ingest_multiple(
         self, client_no_rdf, namespace, auth_token, test_db_no_rdf
     ):