/* encode function start */
var ezEncodeChars = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz0123456789+/";
var ezDecodeChars = new Array(
    -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
    -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
    -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, 62, -1, -1, -1, 63,
    52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
    -1,  0,  1,  2,  3,  4,  5,  6,  7,  8,  9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14,
    15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1,
    -1, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40,
    41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, -1, -1, -1, -1, -1);

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 xxxx10xx xxxx10xx xxxx
			char2 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
			char3 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
			out += String.fromCharCode(((c & 0x0F) << 12) |
			((char2 & 0x3F) << 6) |
			((char3 & 0x3F) << 0));
		}
	}
	return out;
}

function ezEncode(str)
{
  var out, i, len;
  var c1, c2, c3;

  len = str.length;
  i = 0;
  out = "";
  while(i < len)
	{
		c1 = str.charCodeAt(i++) & 0xff;
		if(i == len)
		{
			out += ezEncodeChars.charAt(c1 >> 2);
		  out += ezEncodeChars.charAt((c1 & 0x3) << 4);
		  out += "==";
		  break;
		}
		c2 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
		if(i == len)
		{
	    out += ezEncodeChars.charAt(c1 >> 2);
	    out += ezEncodeChars.charAt(((c1 & 0x3)<< 4) | ((c2 & 0xF0) >> 4));
	    out += ezEncodeChars.charAt((c2 & 0xF) << 2);
	    out += "=";
	    break;
		}
		c3 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
		out += ezEncodeChars.charAt(c1 >> 2);
		out += ezEncodeChars.charAt(((c1 & 0x3)<< 4) | ((c2 & 0xF0) >> 4));
		out += ezEncodeChars.charAt(((c2 & 0xF) << 2) | ((c3 & 0xC0) >> 6));
		out += ezEncodeChars.charAt(c3 & 0x3F);
	}
  return out;
}