Converting Between Hexadecimal Values and Characters

Command:

$ echo -n "織田信長" | hexdump

Output:

0000000 e7 b9 94 e7 94 b0 e4 bf a1 e9 95 b7          
000000c

Hexadecimal Values to Multibyte Characters:

$ echo -e "\xE7\xB9\x94\xE7\x94\xB0\xE4\xBF\xA1\xE9\x95\xB7"

Output:

織田信長