javascript utf

/* utf.js - UTF-8 <=> UTF-16 convertion
 *
 * http://www.onicos.com/staff/iz/amuse/javascript/expert/utf.txt
 * Version: 1.0
 * LastModified: Dec 25 1999
 * This library is free.  You can redistribute it and/or modify it.
 */

/*
 * Interfaces:
 * utf8 = utf16to8(utf16);
 * utf16 = utf16to8(utf8);
 */

function utf16to8(str) {
    var out, i, len, c;

    out = "";
    len = str.length;
    for(i = 0; i < len; i++) {
    c = str.charCodeAt(i);
    if ((c >= 0x0001) && (c <= 0x007F)) {
        out += str.charAt(i);
    } else if (c > 0x07FF) {
        out += String.fromCharCode(0xE0 | ((c >> 12) & 0x0F));
        out += String.fromCharCode(0x80 | ((c >>  6) & 0x3F));
        out += String.fromCharCode(0x80 | ((c >>  0) & 0x3F));
    } else {
        out += String.fromCharCode(0xC0 | ((c >>  6) & 0x1F));
        out += String.fromCharCode(0x80 | ((c >>  0) & 0x3F));
    }
    }
    return out;
}

function utf8to16(str) {
    var out, i, len, c;
    var char2, char3;

    out = "";
    len = str.length;
    i = 0;
    while(i < len) {
    c = str.charCodeAt(i++);
    switch(c >> 4)
    {
      case 0: case 1: case 2: case 3: case 4: case 5: case 6: case 7:
        // 0xxxxxxx
        out += str.charAt(i-1);
        break;
      case 12: case 13:
        // 110x xxxx   10xx xxxx
        char2 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
        out += String.fromCharCode(((c & 0x1F) << 6) | (char2 & 0x3F));
        break;
      case 14:
        // 1110 xxxx  10xx xxxx  10xx xxxx
        char2 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
        char3 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
        out += String.fromCharCode(((c & 0x0F) << 12) |
                       ((char2 & 0x3F) << 6) |
                       ((char3 & 0x3F) << 0));
        break;
    }
    }

    return out;
}