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dougalcampbell / utfluv.js
Created March 12, 2012 19:44
Handle invalid JS character sequences
/**
* encode to handle invalid UTF
*
* If Chrome tells you "Could not decode a text frame as UTF-8" when you try sending
* data from nodejs, try using these functions to encode/decode your JSON objects.
*
* see discussion here: http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=761#c8
* see also, for browsers that don't have native JSON: https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js
*
* Any time you need to send data between client and server (or vice versa), encode before sending,