diff --git a/types/text-encoding-utf-8/index.d.ts b/types/text-encoding-utf-8/index.d.ts
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+// Type definitions for text-encoding-utf-8
+// Project: https://github.com/arv/text-encoding-utf-8
+// Definitions by: Paul Taylor <https://github.com/trxcllnt>
+// Definitions: https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped
+
+declare namespace TextEncoding {
+    interface TextDecoderOptions {
+        fatal?: boolean;
+        ignoreBOM?: boolean;
+    }
+
+    interface TextDecodeOptions {
+        stream?: boolean;
+    }
+
+    interface TextEncoderOptions {
+        NONSTANDARD_allowLegacyEncoding?: boolean;
+    }
+
+    interface TextDecoder {
+        encoding: string;
+        fatal: boolean;
+        ignoreBOM: boolean;
+        decode(input?: ArrayBuffer | ArrayBufferView, options?: TextDecodeOptions): string;
+    }
+
+    interface TextEncoder {
+        encoding: string;
+        encode(input?: string, options?: TextEncodeOptions): Uint8Array;
+    }
+
+    interface TextEncodeOptions {
+        stream?: boolean;
+    }
+
+    interface TextEncoderStatic {
+        (utfLabel?: string, options?: TextEncoderOptions): TextEncoder;
+        new (utfLabel?: string, options?: TextEncoderOptions): TextEncoder;
+    }
+
+    interface TextDecoderStatic {
+        (label?: string, options?: TextDecoderOptions): TextDecoder;
+        new (label?: string, options?: TextDecoderOptions): TextDecoder;
+    }
+
+    interface TextEncodingStatic {
+        TextEncoder: TextEncoderStatic;
+        TextDecoder: TextDecoderStatic;
+    }
+}
+
+declare var TextDecoder: TextEncoding.TextDecoderStatic;
+
+declare var TextEncoder: TextEncoding.TextEncoderStatic;
+
+declare var TextEncoding: TextEncoding.TextEncodingStatic;
+
+declare module "text-encoding-utf-8" {
+    export = TextEncoding;
+}
diff --git a/types/text-encoding-utf-8/text-encoding-utf-8-tests.ts b/types/text-encoding-utf-8/text-encoding-utf-8-tests.ts
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+
+
+function test_encoder() {
+    var text = "plain text";
+    var uint8array: Uint8Array;
+
+    // constructor
+    uint8array = new TextEncoder().encode(text);
+    uint8array = new TextEncoder('utf-8').encode(text);
+
+    uint8array = TextEncoder().encode(text);
+    uint8array = TextEncoder('utf-8').encode(text);
+
+    // attributes
+    var encoder = new TextEncoder();
+    encoder.encoding = 'utf-8';
+    var encoding: string = encoder.encoding;
+
+    // methods
+    encoder.encode();
+    encoder.encode(text);
+}
+
+function test_decoder() {
+    var text = "plain text";
+    var uint8array: Uint8Array = TextEncoder().encode(text);
+    var arrayBuffer: ArrayBuffer = uint8array.buffer
+
+    // constructor
+    text = new TextDecoder().decode(uint8array);
+    text = new TextDecoder('utf-8').decode(uint8array);
+
+    text = TextDecoder().decode(uint8array);
+    text = TextDecoder('utf-8').decode(uint8array);
+
+    // attributes
+    var decoder = new TextDecoder();
+
+    decoder.encoding = 'utf-8';
+    var encoding: string = decoder.encoding;
+
+    decoder.fatal = true;
+    var fatal: boolean = decoder.fatal;
+
+    decoder.ignoreBOM = true;
+    var ignoreBOM: boolean = decoder.ignoreBOM;
+
+    // methods
+    decoder.decode();
+    decoder.decode(uint8array);
+    decoder.decode(arrayBuffer);
+}
diff --git a/types/text-encoding-utf-8/tsconfig.json b/types/text-encoding-utf-8/tsconfig.json
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+{
+    "compilerOptions": {
+        "module": "commonjs",
+        "lib": [
+            "es6"
+        ],
+        "noImplicitAny": true,
+        "noImplicitThis": true,
+        "strictNullChecks": true,
+        "strictFunctionTypes": true,
+        "baseUrl": "../",
+        "typeRoots": [
+            "../"
+        ],
+        "types": [],
+        "noEmit": true,
+        "forceConsistentCasingInFileNames": true
+    },
+    "files": [
+        "index.d.ts",
+        "text-encoding-utf-8-tests.ts"
+    ]
+}
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diff --git a/types/text-encoding-utf-8/tslint.json b/types/text-encoding-utf-8/tslint.json
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+{
+    "extends": "dtslint/dt.json",
+    "rules": {
+        "adjacent-overload-signatures": false,
+        "array-type": false,
+        "arrow-return-shorthand": false,
+        "ban-types": false,
+        "callable-types": false,
+        "comment-format": false,
+        "dt-header": false,
+        "eofline": false,
+        "export-just-namespace": false,
+        "import-spacing": false,
+        "interface-name": false,
+        "interface-over-type-literal": false,
+        "jsdoc-format": false,
+        "max-line-length": false,
+        "member-access": false,
+        "new-parens": false,
+        "no-any-union": false,
+        "no-boolean-literal-compare": false,
+        "no-conditional-assignment": false,
+        "no-consecutive-blank-lines": false,
+        "no-construct": false,
+        "no-declare-current-package": false,
+        "no-duplicate-imports": false,
+        "no-duplicate-variable": false,
+        "no-empty-interface": false,
+        "no-for-in-array": false,
+        "no-inferrable-types": false,
+        "no-internal-module": false,
+        "no-irregular-whitespace": false,
+        "no-mergeable-namespace": false,
+        "no-misused-new": false,
+        "no-namespace": false,
+        "no-object-literal-type-assertion": false,
+        "no-padding": false,
+        "no-redundant-jsdoc": false,
+        "no-redundant-jsdoc-2": false,
+        "no-redundant-undefined": false,
+        "no-reference-import": false,
+        "no-relative-import-in-test": false,
+        "no-self-import": false,
+        "no-single-declare-module": false,
+        "no-string-throw": false,
+        "no-unnecessary-callback-wrapper": false,
+        "no-unnecessary-class": false,
+        "no-unnecessary-generics": false,
+        "no-unnecessary-qualifier": false,
+        "no-unnecessary-type-assertion": false,
+        "no-useless-files": false,
+        "no-var-keyword": false,
+        "no-var-requires": false,
+        "no-void-expression": false,
+        "no-trailing-whitespace": false,
+        "object-literal-key-quotes": false,
+        "object-literal-shorthand": false,
+        "one-line": false,
+        "one-variable-per-declaration": false,
+        "only-arrow-functions": false,
+        "prefer-conditional-expression": false,
+        "prefer-const": false,
+        "prefer-declare-function": false,
+        "prefer-for-of": false,
+        "prefer-method-signature": false,
+        "prefer-template": false,
+        "radix": false,
+        "semicolon": false,
+        "space-before-function-paren": false,
+        "space-within-parens": false,
+        "strict-export-declare-modifiers": false,
+        "trim-file": false,
+        "triple-equals": false,
+        "typedef-whitespace": false,
+        "unified-signatures": false,
+        "void-return": false,
+        "whitespace": false
+    }
+}