{-
-- Could also be imported:
import Codec.Binary.UTF8.Light as UTF8
encode :: Char -> [Word8]
encode c = head (UTF8.encodeUTF8' [UTF8.c2w c])
-}
-- | Encode a Haskell String to a list of Word8 values, in UTF8 format.
encode = 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
]