Parsing of multibyte strings frpom process output

[Michael Albinus]

Hi,

I call a local process ("gio list ...", to name it), which returns utf8
multibyte codes like

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
standard::symlink-target=/home/albinus/tmp/\xc2\x9abung
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

The bytes "\xc2\x9a" stand for the multibyte char ?\x9a. However, I
don't know how to parse it that I could retrieve it. All what I have
tried returns always the *two* characters ?\xc2 ?\x9a, multibyte
encoded. How could I get just the multibyte character ?\x9a from this?

I know that (decode-coding-string "/home/albinus/tmp/\xc2\x9a\ bung" 'utf-8)
does what I want. But here, the string is a string *constant*, which
allows to write characters in hex syntax. When I read the string from
the output buffer (after including the trailing "\ "), this does not work.

Best regards, Michael.