I believe this is still getting tested by several parties, but it’s obviously a highly optimized implementation of a UTF-8 decoder. Bjoern Hoehrmann released his Flexible and Economical UTF-8 Decoder recently, check it out:
// Copyright (c) 2008-2009 Bjoern Hoehrmann
// See http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de/utf-8/decoder/dfa/ for details.
#define UTF8_ACCEPT 0
#define UTF8_REJECT 1
static const uint8_t utf8d[] = {
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, // 00..1f
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, // 20..3f
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, // 40..5f
0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0, // 60..7f
1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9,9, // 80..9f
7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7,7, // a0..bf
8,8,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2,2, // c0..df
0xa,0×3,0×3,0×3,0×3,0×3,0×3,0×3,0×3,0×3,0×3,0×3,0×3,0×4,0×3,0×3, // e0..ef
0xb,0×6,0×6,0×6,0×5,0×8,0×8,0×8,0×8,0×8,0×8,0×8,0×8,0×8,0×8,0×8, // f0..ff
0×0,0×1,0×2,0×3,0×5,0×8,0×7,0×1,0×1,0×1,0×4,0×6,0×1,0×1,0×1,0×1, // s0..s0
1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,0,1,0,1,1,1,1,1,1, // s1..s2
1,2,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1, // s3..s4
1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,2,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,1, // s5..s6
1,3,1,1,1,1,1,3,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,3,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1,1, // s7..s8
};
uint32_t inline
decode(uint32_t* state, uint32_t* codep, uint32_t byte) {
uint32_t type = utf8d[byte];
*codep = (*state != UTF8_ACCEPT) ?
(byte & 0x3fu) | (*codep << 6) :
(0xff >> type) & (byte);
*state = utf8d[256 + *state*16 + type];
return *state;
}