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Does kotlin have something similar to `\xFF` escapes in strings? I can only find `\uFFFF` but this will likely create two bytes instead of one

Then what's the recommended way to create a UByteArray from a string? I currently have
```fun String.toUByteArray(): UByteArray {
    val chunks = chunked(2)
    val result = UByteArray(length) {
        chunks[it].toUByte(16)
    }
    return result
}```
but ideally I could just use escapes so I could do `"somedata\x01\x02\x03"` instead of having to write everything as hex

on JVM, you could
```"somedata\u0001\u0002\u0003".toByteArray(Charsets.ISO_8859_1).asUByteArray()```
and on multiplatform, you could
```"somedata\u0001\u0002\u0003".map { it.code.toUByte() }.toUByteArray()```
but there isn't really a good ergonomic way to do this

or `UByteArray(string.length) { string[it].code.toUByte() }` to skip the intermediate `List`

so there's no shorthand for 1-byte characters like \xFF?