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$ perl -E'say map {chr hex}unpack "(xxA4)*","\\u0069\\u006d\\u0070\\u0
+06f\\u0072\\u0074\\u0061\\u006e\\u0074"'
important

$ cat test.pl
use 5.18.2;
use warnings;

binmode STDOUT, ":encoding(utf-8)";
while (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    say map { chr hex } unpack "(xxA4)*", $_;
    }
__END__
\u0069\u006d\u0070\u006f\u0072\u0074\u0061\u006e\u0074

$ perl test.pl
important

$
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