I suggest you go back to whatever code generated this and fix it.

The text is littered with \u escapes. This escape has zero-length in the resulting string and causes the following character to be uppercased (see ucfirst); however, every following character is a zero which has no case!

While you could search for every occurence of /[0-9a-f]{4}/ (or, even more selectively, /00[3-7][0-9a-f]/) and convert them to characters, you're just as likely to be converting parts of telephone numbers.

You might get away with this but do so at your own risk!: 

#!/usr/bin/env perl -l

use strict;
use warnings;

my $text = " \u003cdiv class=\"ja-job-details\"\u003e \u003ch2 "
         . "class=\"title\"\u003eGlobal Service ...";

print "TEXT: $text";

(my $html = $text) =~ s/(00[3-7][0-9a-f])/pack 'H4', $1/eg;

print "HTML: $html";

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Output:

TEXT:  003cdiv class="ja-job-details"003e 003ch2 class="title"003eGlob
+al Service ...
HTML:  <div class="ja-job-details"> <h2 class="title">Global Service .
+..

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-- Ken

In reply to Re: Convert hex to HTML by kcott
in thread Convert hex to HTML by Anonymous Monk

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