(Visual FoxPro) Decode utf-8 Hex to a String

Converts a hex-encoded utf-8 bytes to a string.

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LOCAL loSb
LOCAL lnSuccess

* For versions of Chilkat < 10.0.0, use CreateObject('Chilkat_9_5_0.StringBuilder')
loSb = CreateObject('Chilkat.StringBuilder')

* Append the hex.  The hex can be uppercase hex or lowercase hex, it doesn't matter.
lnSuccess = loSb.Append("D79ED795D7A6D7A8")

* Notice the above string contains Hebrew chars using the utf-8 byte representation.
* See https://www.loc.gov/marc/specifications/codetables/BasicHebrew.html
* For example:  D79E is the HEBREW LETTER MEM

* Therefore, when we decode to binary bytes, we must interpret the bytes as utf-8
* to get characters.

* Tell Chilkat to URL decode like this:
lnSuccess = loSb.Decode("hex","utf-8")

* sb now contains the decoded string.
? loSb.GetAsString()

RELEASE loSb