title: java method for decoding via unicode_escape
body: <p>Python has a nice function to decode hex and unicode characters in Strings, like so:</p>
  
  <pre><code>print "123\x20Fake\x20St\u002e".decode('unicode_escape')
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Will print:</p>
  
  <pre><code>123 Fake St.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Is there anything similar in java, or is this something that has to be handled with regexes?</p>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT 1</strong></p>
  
  <p>I believe my question is different than <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/13990941/how-to-convert-hex-string-to-java-string">this one</a> as it looks like that question is asking to decode a hex only String. Mine is mixed.</p>