Picklist reference value in REST

Picklist reference value in REST

picklist options can be configured to have a different reference value than the displayed one, should be helpful in things like multilanguage:





is there a way to receive the reference value when querying the records data via REST? in my experience, I always get the picklist value in the JSON response



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