diff --git a/include/media/CharacterEncodingDetector.h b/include/media/CharacterEncodingDetector.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..deaa377
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/media/CharacterEncodingDetector.h
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2013 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+#ifndef _CHARACTER_ENCODING_DETECTOR_H
+#define _CHARACTER_ENCODING_DETECTOR_H
+
+#include <media/mediascanner.h>
+
+#include "StringArray.h"
+
+#include "unicode/ucnv.h"
+#include "unicode/ucsdet.h"
+#include "unicode/ustring.h"
+
+namespace android {
+
+class CharacterEncodingDetector {
+
+    public:
+    CharacterEncodingDetector();
+        ~CharacterEncodingDetector();
+
+        void addTag(const char *name, const char *value);
+        size_t size();
+
+        void detectAndConvert();
+        status_t getTag(int index, const char **name, const char**value);
+
+    private:
+        const UCharsetMatch *getPreferred(
+                const char *input, size_t len,
+                const UCharsetMatch** ucma, size_t matches,
+                bool *goodmatch, int *highestmatch);
+
+        bool isFrequent(const uint16_t *values, uint32_t c);
+
+        // cached name and value strings, for native encoding support.
+        // TODO: replace these with byte blob arrays that don't require the data to be
+        // singlenullbyte-terminated
+        StringArray     mNames;
+        StringArray     mValues;
+
+        UConverter*     mUtf8Conv;
+};
+
+
+
+};  // namespace android
+
+#endif
diff --git a/include/media/StringArray.h b/include/media/StringArray.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..ae47085
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/media/StringArray.h
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2009 The Android Open Source Project
+ *
+ * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+ * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+ * You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+//
+// Sortable array of strings.  STL-ish, but STL-free.
+//  
+#ifndef _LIBS_MEDIA_STRING_ARRAY_H
+#define _LIBS_MEDIA_STRING_ARRAY_H
+
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+
+namespace android {
+
+//
+// An expanding array of strings.  Add, get, sort, delete.
+//
+class StringArray {
+public:
+    StringArray();
+    virtual ~StringArray();
+
+    //
+    // Add a string.  A copy of the string is made.
+    //
+    bool push_back(const char* str);
+
+    //
+    // Delete an entry.
+    //
+    void erase(int idx);
+
+    //
+    // Sort the array.
+    //
+    void sort(int (*compare)(const void*, const void*));
+
+    //
+    // Pass this to the sort routine to do an ascending alphabetical sort.
+    //
+    static int cmpAscendingAlpha(const void* pstr1, const void* pstr2);
+
+    //
+    // Get the #of items in the array.
+    //
+    inline int size(void) const { return mCurrent; }
+
+    //
+    // Return entry N.
+    // [should use operator[] here]
+    //
+    const char* getEntry(int idx) const {
+        return (unsigned(idx) >= unsigned(mCurrent)) ? NULL : mArray[idx];
+    }
+
+    //
+    // Set entry N to specified string.
+    // [should use operator[] here]
+    //
+    void setEntry(int idx, const char* str);
+
+private:
+    int     mMax;
+    int     mCurrent;
+    char**  mArray;
+};
+
+}; // namespace android
+
+#endif // _LIBS_MEDIA_STRING_ARRAY_H
diff --git a/include/media/mediascanner.h b/include/media/mediascanner.h
index 5213bdc..d555279 100644
--- a/include/media/mediascanner.h
+++ b/include/media/mediascanner.h
@@ -122,7 +122,6 @@
 protected:
     // default encoding from MediaScanner::mLocale
     String8 mLocale;
-    CharacterEncodingDetector *mEncodingDetector;
 };
 
 }; // namespace android