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\x{010C} is only a equal to Č if it appears in a string literal. Otherwise, you may want to use 'chr'. Two ways of converting "<U+010C>": 
$text =~ s/<U\+([0-9A-Fa-f]+)>/qq!"\\x{$1}"!/ee;
$text =~ s/<U\+([0-9A-Fa-f]+)>/chr hex $1/e;

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Re^2: convert scalar to wide hexadecimal value? how?
by merlinX (Novice) on Jan 14, 2009 at 12:11 UTC
    Indeed, thanks ... regex is not my strong point anyway, so hence a little additional question, suppose I have multiple <U+xxxx> codes in the string like for instance  "TEST <U+010C> <U+0158> <U+0147>"... how does the regexp look like then?
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      Just found it ... I guess I have to add the g of global right? 
      $text =~ s/<U\+([0-9A-Fa-f]+)>/qq!"\\x{$1}"!/gee;

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        Indeed.
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