Parsing codepoints

["Thiago L." <fakedme@...>]

So is there a fast way to parse stuff like \x00 \x7F \xC0 \x80 \xFF \x80 
\x80 \x80 \x80 \x80 \x80 \x80 into 0x0 0x7F 0x0 0x0? (basically an UTF-8 
where everything is valid)