File: unescape_unicode.R

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unescape_unicode <- function(x){
  #single string only
  stopifnot(is.character(x) && length(x) == 1)

  #find matches
  m <- gregexpr("(\\\\)+u[0-9a-z]{4}", x, ignore.case = TRUE)

  if(m[[1]][1] > -1){
    #parse matches
    p <- vapply(regmatches(x, m)[[1]], function(txt){
      gsub("\\", "\\\\", parse(text=paste0('"', txt, '"'))[[1]], fixed = TRUE, useBytes = TRUE)
    }, character(1), USE.NAMES = FALSE)

    #substitute parsed into original
    regmatches(x, m) <- list(p)
  }

  x
}