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+--
+-- |
+-- Module      :  Codec.Binary.UTF8.String
+-- Copyright   :  (c) Eric Mertens 2007
+-- License     :  BSD3-style (see LICENSE)
+-- 
+-- Maintainer:    emertens@galois.com
+-- Stability   :  experimental
+-- Portability :  portable
+--
+-- Support for encoding UTF8 Strings to and from @[Word8]@
+--
+
+module Codec.Binary.UTF8.String (
+      encode
+    , decode
+    , encodeString
+    , decodeString
+  ) where
+
+import Data.Word        (Word8)
+import Data.Bits        ((.|.),(.&.),shiftL,shiftR)
+import Data.Char        (chr,ord)
+
+default(Int)
+
+-- | Encode a string using 'encode' and store the result in a 'String'.
+encodeString :: String -> String
+encodeString xs = map (toEnum . fromEnum) (encode xs)
+
+-- | Decode a string using 'decode' using a 'String' as input.
+-- | This is not safe but it is necessary if UTF-8 encoded text
+-- | has been loaded into a 'String' prior to being decoded.
+decodeString :: String -> String
+decodeString xs = decode (map (toEnum . fromEnum) xs)
+
+replacement_character :: Char
+replacement_character = '\xfffd'
+
+-- | Encode a Haskell String to a list of Word8 values, in UTF8 format.
+encode :: String -> [Word8]
+encode = concatMap (map fromIntegral . go . ord)
+ where
+  go oc
+   | oc <= 0x7f       = [oc]
+
+   | oc <= 0x7ff      = [ 0xc0 + (oc `shiftR` 6)
+                        , 0x80 + oc .&. 0x3f
+                        ]
+
+   | oc <= 0xffff     = [ 0xe0 + (oc `shiftR` 12)
+                        , 0x80 + ((oc `shiftR` 6) .&. 0x3f)
+                        , 0x80 + oc .&. 0x3f
+                        ]
+   | otherwise        = [ 0xf0 + (oc `shiftR` 18)
+                        , 0x80 + ((oc `shiftR` 12) .&. 0x3f)
+                        , 0x80 + ((oc `shiftR` 6) .&. 0x3f)
+                        , 0x80 + oc .&. 0x3f
+                        ]
+
+--
+-- | Decode a UTF8 string packed into a list of Word8 values, directly to String
+--
+decode :: [Word8] -> String
+decode [    ] = ""
+decode (c:cs)
+  | c < 0x80  = chr (fromEnum c) : decode cs
+  | c < 0xc0  = replacement_character : decode cs
+  | c < 0xe0  = multi1
+  | c < 0xf0  = multi_byte 2 0xf  0x800
+  | c < 0xf8  = multi_byte 3 0x7  0x10000
+  | c < 0xfc  = multi_byte 4 0x3  0x200000
+  | c < 0xfe  = multi_byte 5 0x1  0x4000000
+  | otherwise = replacement_character : decode cs
+  where
+    multi1 = case cs of
+      c1 : ds | c1 .&. 0xc0 == 0x80 ->
+        let d = ((fromEnum c .&. 0x1f) `shiftL` 6) .|.  fromEnum (c1 .&. 0x3f)
+        in if d >= 0x000080 then toEnum d : decode ds
+                            else replacement_character : decode ds
+      _ -> replacement_character : decode cs
+
+    multi_byte :: Int -> Word8 -> Int -> [Char]
+    multi_byte i mask overlong = aux i cs (fromEnum (c .&. mask))
+      where
+        aux 0 rs acc
+          | overlong <= acc && acc <= 0x10ffff &&
+            (acc < 0xd800 || 0xdfff < acc)     &&
+            (acc < 0xfffe || 0xffff < acc)      = chr acc : decode rs
+          | otherwise = replacement_character : decode rs
+
+        aux n (r:rs) acc
+          | r .&. 0xc0 == 0x80 = aux (n-1) rs
+                               $ shiftL acc 6 .|. fromEnum (r .&. 0x3f)
+
+        aux _ rs     _ = replacement_character : decode rs
+