code: def unescape_utf8(msg):
      ''' convert escaped unicode web entities to unicode '''
      def sub(m):
          text = m.group(0)
          if text[:3] == "&#x": return unichr(int(text[3:-1], 16))
          else:                 return unichr(int(text[2:-1]))
      return re.sub("&#?\w+;", sub, urllib.unquote(msg)f unescape_utf8(msg):
      ''' convert escaped unicode web entities to unicode '''
      def sub(m):
          text = m.group(0)
          if text[:3] == "&#x": return unichr(int(text[3:-1], 16))
          else:                 return unichr(int(text[2:-1]))
      return re.sub("&#?\w+;", sub, urllib.unquote(msg))
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