var Url = {

        // public method for url encoding
        encode : function (string) {
            return escape(this._utf8_encode(string));
        },
    
        // public method for url decoding
        decode : function (string) {
            return this._utf8_decode(unescape(string));
        },
    
        // private method for UTF-8 encoding
        _utf8_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;
        },
    
        // private method for UTF-8 decoding
        _utf8_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;
        }
    
    }