/**
*
*  UTF-8 data encode / decode
*  http://www.webtoolkit.info/
*
**/

var Utf8 = {

    // public method for url encoding
    encode : function (string) {
        string = string.replace(/\r\n/g,"\n");
        var utftext = "";

        for (var n = 0; n < string.length; n++) {

            var c = string.charCodeAt(n);

            if (c < 128) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(c);
            }
            else if((c > 127) && (c < 2048)) {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 6) | 192);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
            }
            else {
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c >> 12) | 224);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode(((c >> 6) & 63) | 128);
                utftext += String.fromCharCode((c & 63) | 128);
            }

        }

        return utftext;
    },

    // public method for url decoding
    decode : function (utftext) {
        var string = "";
        var i = 0;
        var c = c1 = c2 = 0;

        while ( i < utftext.length ) {

            c = utftext.charCodeAt(i);

            if (c < 128) {
                string += String.fromCharCode(c);
                i++;
            }
            else if((c > 191) && (c < 224)) {
                c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
                string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 31) << 6) | (c2 & 63));
                i += 2;
            }
            else {
                c2 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+1);
                c3 = utftext.charCodeAt(i+2);
                string += String.fromCharCode(((c & 15) << 12) | ((c2 & 63) << 6) | (c3 & 63));
                i += 3;
            }

        }

        return string;
    },

	htmlGermanChars2Utf8 : function (string) {

		 var ae = "ä";
		 var htmlae = "&auml;"
		 var oe = "ö";
		 var htmloe = "&ouml;"
		 var ue = "ü";
		 var htmlue = "&uuml;"
		 var Ue = "Ü";
		 var htmlUe = "&Uuml;";
		 var Ae = "Ã,,";
		 var htmlAe = "&Auml;";
		 var Oe = "Ã-";
		 var htmlOe = "&Ouml;";
		 var ss = "ß";
		 var htmlss = "&szlig;";

		 string = string.replace(htmlae, ae);
		 string = string.replace(htmloe, oe);
		 string = string.replace(htmlue, ue);
		/*
		 string = string.replace(htmlAe, Ae);
		 string = string.replace(htmlOe, Oe);
		 string = string.replace(htmlUe, Ue);
		 string = string.replace(htmlss, ss);
		 */
		 return string;
	}



}