commit 45627ad72b96dca9f35dbb9b9df38a410165d9be
Author: Ryan McGrath <ryan@venodesigns.net>
Date:   Mon May 30 15:00:10 2011 +0900

    Initial

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+This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View, California, 94041, USA.
diff --git a/lib/utf8.js b/lib/utf8.js
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+/*	Utf8.js
+ *
+ *	A port of the Utf8 encoding functions written by Chris Veness, about as far
+ *	back as 2002. I simply ported this to Node's module architecture and pushed it to
+ *	npm (package manager), because... well, this is a ridiculously useful module to NOT have. ;P
+ *
+ *	@Authors: Chris Veness, Ryan McGrath <ryan@venodesigns.net>
+ *	@Requires: Nothing
+ */
+
+/*	Encode multi-byte Unicode string into utf-8 multiple single-byte characters 
+ * 	(BMP / basic multilingual plane only)
+ *
+ * 	Chars in range U+0080 - U+07FF are encoded in 2 chars, U+0800 - U+FFFF in 3 chars
+ *
+ * 	@param {String} strUni Unicode string to be encoded as UTF-8
+ * 	@returns {String} encoded string
+ */
+exports.encode = function(strUni) {
+	/*	Use regular expressions & String.replace callback function for better efficiency 
+	 *	than procedural approaches
+	 */
+	var strUtf = strUni.replace(/[\u0080-\u07ff]/g, function(c) { 
+       	var cc = c.charCodeAt(0);
+       	return String.fromCharCode(0xc0 | cc>>6, 0x80 | cc&0x3f); 
+	});
+  
+	strUtf = strUtf.replace(/[\u0800-\uffff]/g, function(c) { 
+	    var cc = c.charCodeAt(0); 
+	    return String.fromCharCode(0xe0 | cc>>12, 0x80 | cc>>6&0x3F, 0x80 | cc&0x3f); 
+	});
+  
+	return strUtf;
+};
+
+/*	Decode utf-8 encoded string back into multi-byte Unicode characters
+ *
+ * 	@param {String} strUtf UTF-8 string to be decoded back to Unicode
+ * 	@returns {String} decoded string
+ */
+exports.decode = function(strUtf) {
+  	/* note: decode 3-byte chars first as decoded 2-byte strings could appear to be 3-byte char! */
+  	var strUni = strUtf.replace(/[\u00e0-\u00ef][\u0080-\u00bf][\u0080-\u00bf]/g, function(c) {
+    	var cc = ((c.charCodeAt(0)&0x0f)<<12) | ((c.charCodeAt(1)&0x3f)<<6) | ( c.charCodeAt(2)&0x3f); 
+        return String.fromCharCode(cc); 
+	});
+  
+	strUni = strUni.replace(/[\u00c0-\u00df][\u0080-\u00bf]/g, function(c) {
+		var cc = (c.charCodeAt(0)&0x1f)<<6 | c.charCodeAt(1)&0x3f;
+		return String.fromCharCode(cc); 
+	});
+  
+	return strUni;
+};
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
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+{
+  "name": "utf8",
+  "description": "Basic Utf-8 encoding/decoding library to alleviate confusion among people.",
+  "version": "1.0.0",
+  "author": "Ryan McGrath <ryan@venodesigns.net>",
+
+  "repository": {
+    "type" : "git",
+    "url": "https://ryanmcgrath@github.com/ryanmcgrath/node-utf8.git"
+  },
+
+  "bugs": {
+    "web": "http://github.com/ryanmcgrath/node-utf8/issues"
+  },
+
+  "os": [ "linux", "darwin", "freebsd" ],
+
+  "directories": {
+    "lib": "./lib/"
+  },
+
+  "main": "./lib/utf8",
+
+  "engines": { 
+    "node": ">=0.1.97"
+  },
+
+  "licenses": [{
+    "type" : "Creative Commons 3.0",
+    "url" : "http://github.com/ryanmcgrath/node-utf8/raw/master/LICENSE"
+  }]
+}
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
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+Node Utf-8 Encoding/Decoding Functions
+==============================================================================
+This is a port of the work done by Chris Veness over the past ten years in relation
+to encoding and decoding Utf-8 data in a JavaScript environment. I didn't write the core
+of this, merely modified it to work with Node's package structure and be published on npm, where
+people can by and large get used to it and stop being confused about this issue. ;P
+
+
+Installation
+------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+    npm install utf8
+
+
+Usage
+-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+``` javascript
+var utf8 = require('utf8');
+    
+var c = utf8.encode("私は")
+utf8.decode(c);
+```
+
+
+Questions, Comments?
+--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+**[@ryanmcgrath](http://twitter.com/ryanmcgrath/)**