How to convert excaped bytes back to UTF-8

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#1

Here's some code (blatantly copied from an SO answer):

fn main() {
    let x = String::from_utf8(
        "The compiler said “you have an error!”."
            .bytes()
            .flat_map(|b| std::ascii::escape_default(b))
            .collect::<Vec<u8>>(),
    )
    .unwrap();
    println!("{}", x);
    println!("{}", String::from_utf8(x.as_bytes().to_vec()).unwrap());
}

How can I recover the original UTF-8 encoded string from the ASCII escaped string? My attempt (in the second println!() statement) is clearly wrong.

#2

I guess I should have included the playground link: Rust Playground

#3

unescape source

I found a Rust implementation to unescape, but I do not know how good it is.