From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2009-02-10T22:54:21+09:00
Subject: Re: YAML + ASCII Encoded Unicode

Something like this should do:

  data = File.read("source.txt")
  data.gsub!(/\\x([0-9a-f]{2})/i) { $1.hex.chr }
  File.write("output.txt","w") { |f| f.write(data) }

(You can check with 'hexdump -C output.txt' that you get a single byte 
for each \xHH code)

Then just open the file with any text editor which supports UTF-8.

However, this file may be invalid YAML - so it may only be useful for 
reading and copy/pasting from.

In that case, you might be better just reading in the YAML into Ruby, 
and then outputting the parts you're interested in.

  require 'yaml'
  src = "---\nfoo: \"Donn\\xC3\\xA9es de votre location\""
  data = YAML.load(src)
  puts data["foo"]
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