Convert an escaped unicode String to its chars in ruby 1.8?

The simplest approach might be to use a JSON parser, as JSON happens to use this very format: irb(main):014:0> JSON '"\u2714 \u2714 my great string \u2714 \u2714"' => "\342\234\224 \342\234\224 my great string \342\234\224 \342\234\224".

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