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diff --git a/new/text_windows.c b/new/text_windows.c
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+++ b/new/text_windows.c
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+// 9 april 2015
+#include "uipriv_windows.h"
+
+#define MBTWC(str, wstr, bufsiz) MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, str, -1, wstr, bufsiz)
+
+WCHAR *toUTF16(const char *str)
+{
+	WCHAR *wstr;
+	int n;
+
+	n = MBTWC(str, NULL, 0);
+	if (n == 0)
+		logLastError("error figuring out number of characters to convert to in toUTF16()");
+	wstr = (WCHAR *) uiAlloc(n * sizeof (WCHAR), "WCHAR[]");
+	if (MBTWC(str, wstr, n) != n)
+		logLastError("error converting from UTF-8 to UTF-16 in toUTF16()");
+	return wstr;
+}