Hello fellow monks, I seek your assistance with my limited unicode skills. I get unicode in the form of for example \u6b63 which I convert as: 
$_ = "\\x{6b63}";

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However if I print $_ it outputs as: 
\x{6b63}

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I'm not trying to output the "literal string" but the chinese character which is 正. Any pointers? The following code executes: 
use Encode;

$_ = "\u6b63";
$_ =~ s/\\u(.{4})/chr($1)/eg;
$char = "\\x{$_}";
print "raw is $char \n";
print "decode is " . Encode::decode("unicode", $char). "\n";

__UNDESIRED OUTPUT__
raw is \x{6b63}
decode is \x{6b63}

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Thanks, Justin

In reply to unicode/utf string to actual character by xachen

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