A jQuery plugin for base64 encoding, that allows multibyte and unicode characters.

This is simply a jQuery plugin wrapper around code originally found here:
http://www.webtoolkit.info/javascript-base64.html
(This host is now defucnt, and the javascript snippet has become prevalent.)

SAMPLE CODE:

//some special characters
var instr = $.base64.encode('£¡¢£¤¥¦§¨©ª«¬®¯°±²³´µ¶·¸¹º»¼½¾¿ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏ–—‘’‚“”„†‡•…‰€™'); 
alert(instr);
var outstr = $.base64.decode(instr);
alert(outstr);