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    The thing is echo is usually a builtin command. So this is up to the shell you are using. The linux default being bash; \xHH is properly displaying a character through its hexadecimal value. Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 13:24
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    You are absolutely correct, my bad. See my edit 1 update. Commented Mar 5, 2014 at 13:32