jQuery websafe Unicode

jquery.websafeunicode.js

	$.fn.websafeUnicode = function(options) {
		var ival = $(this).val();
		var oval = $.trim(ival);
		if( oval.length > 0 ){
			//strip iso-8859-1 and windows-1252 control characters
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0081\u008D\u008F\u0090\u009D]/g,'');
			//Shift iso-8859-1 and windows-1252 up to unicode websafe equivalents
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0080]/g,'\u20AC'); //euro sign
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0082]/g,'\u201A'); //single low-9 quotation mark
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0083]/g,'\u0192'); //florin currency symbol
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0084]/g,'\u201E'); //double low-9 quotation mark
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0085]/g,'\u2026'); //horizontal ellipsis
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0086]/g,'\u2020'); //dagger
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0087]/g,'\u2021'); //double dagger
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0088]/g,'\u02C6'); //modifier letter circumflex accent
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0089]/g,'\u2030'); //per mille sign
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u008A]/g,'\u0160'); //latin capital letter s with caron
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u008B]/g,'\u2039'); //single left-pointing angle quotation mark
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u008C]/g,'\u0152'); //latin capital ligature oe
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u008E]/g,'\u017D'); //latin capital letter z with caron
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0091]/g,'\u2018'); //left single quotation mark
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0092]/g,'\u2019'); //right single quotation mark
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0093]/g,'\u201C'); //left double quotation mark
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0094]/g,'\u201D'); //right double quotation mark
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0095]/g,'\u2022'); //bullet
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0096]/g,'\u2013'); //en dash
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0097]/g,'\u2014'); //em dash
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0098]/g,'\u02DC'); //small tilde
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u0099]/g,'\u2122'); //trade mark sign
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u009A]/g,'\u0161'); //latin small letter s with caron
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u009B]/g,'\u203A'); //single right-pointing angle quotation mark
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u009C]/g,'\u0153'); //latin small ligature oe
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u009E]/g,'\u017E'); //latin small letter z with caron
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u009F]/g,'\u0178'); //latin capital letter y with diaeresis
			//Replace nonbreaking space with regular space
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u00A0]/g,'\u0020');
  			//Shift common punctiation down to ASCII
				//soft hyphen, hyphen, non-breaking-hyphen, figure dash, en dash, em dash, horizontal bar,
			//hyphen bullet, small em dash, small hyphen-minus and fullwidth hyphen-minus to hyphen-minus
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u00AD\u2010\u2011\u2012\u2013\u2014\u2015\u2043\uFE58\uFE63\uFE0D]/g,'\u002D');
			//left, right and high-reversed-9 single quotation mark to apostrophe
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u2018\u2019\u201B]/g,'\u0027');
			//left, right and high-reversed-9 double quotation mark to quotation mark
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u201C\u201D\u201F]/g,'\u0022');
			//single and double low-9 quotation mark to comma
			oval = oval.replace(/[\u201A\u201E]/g,'\u002C');
			$(this).val(oval);
		}
	};