--- a/gtk3/dw.c	Tue Jul 24 23:33:50 2012 +0000
+++ b/gtk3/dw.c	Wed Jul 25 00:46:00 2012 +0000
@@ -11360,3 +11360,51 @@
    DW_MUTEX_UNLOCK;
 }
 
+/*
+ * Converts a UTF-8 encoded string into a wide string.
+ * Parameters:
+ *       utf8string: UTF-8 encoded source string.
+ * Returns:
+ *       Wide string that needs to be freed with dw_free()
+ *       or NULL on failure.
+ */
+wchar_t * API dw_utf8_to_wchar(char *utf8string)
+{
+   wchar_t *retval = NULL, *freeme;
+   
+   if(sizeof(wchar_t) == sizeof(gunichar))
+      freeme = retval = (wchar_t *)g_utf8_to_ucs4(utf8string, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+   else if(sizeof(wchar_t) == sizeof(gunichar2))   
+      freeme = retval = (wchar_t *)g_utf8_to_utf16(utf8string, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+   if(retval)
+   {
+      retval = wcsdup(retval);
+      g_free(freeme);
+   }
+   return retval;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Converts a wide string into a UTF-8 encoded string.
+ * Parameters:
+ *       wstring: Wide source string.
+ * Returns:
+ *       UTF-8 encoded string that needs to be freed with dw_free()
+ *       or NULL on failure.
+ */
+char * API dw_wchar_to_utf8(wchar_t *wstring)
+{
+   char *retval = NULL, *freeme;
+   
+   if(sizeof(wchar_t) == sizeof(gunichar))
+      freeme = retval = g_ucs4_to_utf8((gunichar *)wstring, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+   else if(sizeof(wchar_t) == sizeof(gunichar2))
+      freeme = retval = g_utf16_to_utf8((gunichar2 *)wstring, -1, NULL, NULL, NULL);
+   if(retval)
+   {
+      retval = strdup(retval);
+      g_free(freeme);
+   }
+   return retval;    
+}
+