title: Decoding escaped characters
body: <p>I'm trying to convert <strong>string1</strong> so it would give the output as what's on <strong>string2</strong> </p>
  
  <pre><code>string1 = "&lt;value&gt;UK LONDON 8CS Flr01 Rm1\\xc4\\x9f&lt;/value&gt;"
  
  string2 = "&lt;value&gt;UK LONDON 8CS Flr01 Rm1ğ&lt;/value&gt;"
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I'm using plone with limited options, lets assume I cannot import any external libraries. </p>
  
  <p>When I tried to use .decode( 'unicode-escape') it returns following string</p>
  
  <pre><code>print string1.decode( 'unicode-escape' )  # prints &lt;value&gt;UK LONDON 8CS Flr01 Rm1Ä&lt;/value&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Note that it takes Ä by converting first part of the unicode <strong>( \xc4 )</strong></p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>