there's a java class that does UTF-8 encoding, but I need it to work in javascript. can anyone convert the following so that it will work in a javascript function? i tried for about an hour, and i kept getting errors because i don't think js supports hex[] call nor append in the way it's being used, and eventually i gave up. I changed all the appends to +=, but I kept getting stuck on the hex stuff.
I got the code below from
http://www.w3.org/International/O-URL-code.html/**
* Provides a method to encode any string into a URL-safe
* form.
* Non-ASCII characters are first encoded as sequences of
* two or three bytes, using the UTF-8 algorithm, before being
* encoded as %HH escapes.
*/
public class URLUTF8Encoder
{
final static String[] hex = {
"%00", "%01", "%02", "%03", "%04", "%05", "%06", "%07",
"%08", "%09", "%0a", "%0b", "%0c", "%0d", "%0e", "%0f",
"%10", "%11", "%12", "%13", "%14", "%15", "%16", "%17",
"%18", "%19", "%1a", "%1b", "%1c", "%1d", "%1e", "%1f",
"%20", "%21", "%22", "%23", "%24", "%25", "%26", "%27",
"%28", "%29", "%2a", "%2b", "%2c", "%2d", "%2e", "%2f",
"%30", "%31", "%32", "%33", "%34", "%35", "%36", "%37",
"%38", "%39", "%3a", "%3b", "%3c", "%3d", "%3e", "%3f",
"%40", "%41", "%42", "%43", "%44", "%45", "%46", "%47",
"%48", "%49", "%4a", "%4b", "%4c", "%4d", "%4e", "%4f",
"%50", "%51", "%52", "%53", "%54", "%55", "%56", "%57",
"%58", "%59", "%5a", "%5b", "%5c", "%5d", "%5e", "%5f",
"%60", "%61", "%62", "%63", "%64", "%65", "%66", "%67",
"%68", "%69", "%6a", "%6b", "%6c", "%6d", "%6e", "%6f",
"%70", "%71", "%72", "%73", "%74", "%75", "%76", "%77",
"%78", "%79", "%7a", "%7b", "%7c", "%7d", "%7e", "%7f",
"%80", "%81", "%82", "%83", "%84", "%85", "%86", "%87",
"%88", "%89", "%8a", "%8b", "%8c", "%8d", "%8e", "%8f",
"%90", "%91", "%92", "%93", "%94", "%95", "%96", "%97",
"%98", "%99", "%9a", "%9b", "%9c", "%9d", "%9e", "%9f",
"%a0", "%a1", "%a2", "%a3", "%a4", "%a5", "%a6", "%a7",
"%a8", "%a9", "%aa", "%ab", "%ac", "%ad", "%ae", "%af",
"%b0", "%b1", "%b2", "%b3", "%b4", "%b5", "%b6", "%b7",
"%b8", "%b9", "%ba", "%bb", "%bc", "%bd", "%be", "%bf",
"%c0", "%c1", "%c2", "%c3", "%c4", "%c5", "%c6", "%c7",
"%c8", "%c9", "%ca", "%cb", "%cc", "%cd", "%ce", "%cf",
"%d0", "%d1", "%d2", "%d3", "%d4", "%d5", "%d6", "%d7",
"%d8", "%d9", "%da", "%db", "%dc", "%dd", "%de", "%df",
"%e0", "%e1", "%e2", "%e3", "%e4", "%e5", "%e6", "%e7",
"%e8", "%e9", "%ea", "%eb", "%ec", "%ed", "%ee", "%ef",
"%f0", "%f1", "%f2", "%f3", "%f4", "%f5", "%f6", "%f7",
"%f8", "%f9", "%fa", "%fb", "%fc", "%fd", "%fe", "%ff"
};
/**
* Encode a string to the "x-www-form-urlencoded" form, enhanced
* with the UTF-8-in-URL proposal. This is what happens:
*
* <ul>
* <li><p>The ASCII characters 'a' through 'z', 'A' through 'Z',
* and '0' through '9' remain the same.
*
* <li><p>The unreserved characters - _ . ! ~ * ' ( ) remain the same.
*
* <li><p>The space character ' ' is converted into a plus sign '+'.
*
* <li><p>All other ASCII characters are converted into the
* 3-character string "%xy", where xy is
* the two-digit hexadecimal representation of the character
* code
*
* <li><p>All non-ASCII characters are encoded in two steps: first
* to a sequence of 2 or 3 bytes, using the UTF-8 algorithm;
* secondly each of these bytes is encoded as "%xx".
* </ul>
*
* @param s The string to be encoded
* @return The encoded string
*/
public static String encode(String s)
{
StringBuffer sbuf = new StringBuffer();
int len = s.length();
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
int ch = s.charAt(i);
if ('A' <= ch && ch <= 'Z') { // 'A'..'Z'
sbuf.append((char)ch);
} else if ('a' <= ch && ch <= 'z') { // 'a'..'z'
sbuf.append((char)ch);
} else if ('0' <= ch && ch <= '9') { // '0'..'9'
sbuf.append((char)ch);
} else if (ch == ' ') { // space
sbuf.append('+');
} else if (ch == '-' || ch == '_' // unreserved
|| ch == '.' || ch == '!'
|| ch == '~' || ch == '*'
|| ch == '\'' || ch == '('
|| ch == ')') {
sbuf.append((char)ch);
} else if (ch <= 0x007f) { // other ASCII
sbuf.append(hex[ch]);
} else if (ch <= 0x07FF) { // non-ASCII <= 0x7FF
sbuf.append(hex[0xc0 | (ch >> 6)]);
sbuf.append(hex[0x80 | (ch & 0x3F)]);
} else { // 0x7FF < ch <= 0xFFFF
sbuf.append(hex[0xe0 | (ch >> 12)]);
sbuf.append(hex[0x80 | ((ch >> 6) & 0x3F)]);
sbuf.append(hex[0x80 | (ch & 0x3F)]);
}
}
return sbuf.toString();
}
}
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