What kind of encoding is this: \x3Cb\x3E\x3C?

Question

I'm receiving data from an AJAX request, and it's really weird. I thought it was unicode, but unicode's codes are like \u00E7 (ç).

\x3Cb\x3E\x3C

What do you think this is? And how can I convert it to normal text with Java?

Thank you

Answer 1

It might be plain ASCII. \x3Cb\x3E\x3C decodes to <b><.