2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/src/util/string.cpp b/src/util/string.cpp
index 187d2a078..60ccc9300 100644
--- a/src/util/string.cpp
+++ b/src/util/string.cpp
@@ -168,6 +168,16 @@ std::string wide_to_utf8(const std::wstring &input)
 
 #endif // _WIN32
 
+wchar_t *utf8_to_wide_c(const char *str)
+{
+	std::wstring ret = utf8_to_wide(std::string(str)).c_str();
+	size_t len = ret.length();
+	wchar_t *ret_c = new wchar_t[len + 1];
+	memset(ret_c, 0, (len + 1) * sizeof(wchar_t));
+	memcpy(ret_c, ret.c_str(), len * sizeof(wchar_t));
+	return ret_c;
+}
+
 // You must free the returned string!
 // The returned string is allocated using new
 wchar_t *narrow_to_wide_c(const char *str)
diff --git a/src/util/string.h b/src/util/string.h
index 6980060e4..793baad0e 100644
--- a/src/util/string.h
+++ b/src/util/string.h
@@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ struct FlagDesc {
 std::wstring utf8_to_wide(const std::string &input);
 std::string wide_to_utf8(const std::wstring &input);
 
+wchar_t *utf8_to_wide_c(const char *str);
+
 // NEVER use those two functions unless you have a VERY GOOD reason to
 // they just convert between wide and multibyte encoding
 // multibyte encoding depends on current locale, this is no good, especially on Windows