String.prototype.trim = function() {
    return this.replace(/^\s*/, "").replace(/\s*$/, "");
}

function encodeParam(strText) {
    return encodeURI(decodeUTF(strText));
    //return encodeURIComponent(encodeURI(strText));
    //return urlencode(strText);
}


//function urlencode(str) {

//    var histogram = {}, tmp_arr = [];
//    var ret = (str + '').toString();

//    var replacer = function(search, replace, str) {
//        var tmp_arr = [];
//        tmp_arr = str.split(search);
//        return tmp_arr.join(replace);
//    };

//    // The histogram is identical to the one in urldecode.
//    histogram["'"] = '%27';
//    histogram['('] = '%28';
//    histogram[')'] = '%29';
//    histogram['*'] = '%2A';
//    histogram['~'] = '%7E';
//    histogram['!'] = '%21';
//    histogram['%20'] = '+';
//    histogram['\u00DC'] = '%DC';
//    histogram['\u00FC'] = '%FC';
//    histogram['\u00C4'] = '%D4';
//    histogram['\u00E4'] = '%E4';
//    histogram['\u00D6'] = '%D6';
//    histogram['\u00F6'] = '%F6';
//    histogram['\u00DF'] = '%DF';
//    histogram['\u20AC'] = '%80';
//    histogram['\u0081'] = '%81';
//    histogram['\u201A'] = '%82';
//    histogram['\u0192'] = '%83';
//    histogram['\u201E'] = '%84';
//    histogram['\u2026'] = '%85';
//    histogram['\u2020'] = '%86';
//    histogram['\u2021'] = '%87';
//    histogram['\u02C6'] = '%88';
//    histogram['\u2030'] = '%89';
//    histogram['\u0160'] = '%8A';
//    histogram['\u2039'] = '%8B';
//    histogram['\u0152'] = '%8C';
//    histogram['\u008D'] = '%8D';
//    histogram['\u017D'] = '%8E';
//    histogram['\u008F'] = '%8F';
//    histogram['\u0090'] = '%90';
//    histogram['\u2018'] = '%91';
//    histogram['\u2019'] = '%92';
//    histogram['\u201C'] = '%93';
//    histogram['\u201D'] = '%94';
//    histogram['\u2022'] = '%95';
//    histogram['\u2013'] = '%96';
//    histogram['\u2014'] = '%97';
//    histogram['\u02DC'] = '%98';
//    histogram['\u2122'] = '%99';
//    histogram['\u0161'] = '%9A';
//    histogram['\u203A'] = '%9B';
//    histogram['\u0153'] = '%9C';
//    histogram['\u009D'] = '%9D';
//    histogram['\u017E'] = '%9E';
//    histogram['\u0178'] = '%9F';

//    // Begin with encodeURIComponent, which most resembles PHP's encoding functions
//    ret = encodeURIComponent(ret);

//    for (var search = 0; search < histogram.length; search++)
//    {
//        replace = histogram[search];
//        ret = replacer(search, replace, ret) // Custom replace. No regexing
//    }

//    // Uppercase for full PHP compatibility
//    return ret.replace(/(\%([a-z0-9]{2}))/g, function(full, m1, m2) {
//        return "%" + m2.toUpperCase();
//    });

//    return ret;
//}


function decodeUTF(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 unescape(encodeURI(utftext));
    return string;
}

function encodeUTF(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;
}