chrisveness

/**
 * Encodes multi-byte Unicode string into utf-8 multiple single-byte characters
 * (BMP / basic multilingual plane only).
 *
 * Chars in range U+0080 - U+07FF are encoded in 2 chars, U+0800 - U+FFFF in 3 chars.
 *
 * Can be achieved in JavaScript by unescape(encodeURIComponent(str)),
 * but this approach may be useful in other languages.
 *
 * @param   {string} unicodeString - Unicode string to be encoded as UTF-8.