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 xxxx 10xx xxxx 10xx xxxx
    char2 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
    char3 = str.charCodeAt(i++);
    out += String.fromCharCode(((c & 0x0F) << 12) |
    ((char2 & 0x3F) << 6) |
    ((char3 & 0x3F) << 0));
    break;
    }
    }
    return out;
}