diff --git a/include/utils/String16.h b/include/utils/String16.h
index a2d22ee..07a0c11 100644
--- a/include/utils/String16.h
+++ b/include/utils/String16.h
@@ -49,12 +49,17 @@
 // Version of strzcmp16 for comparing strings in different endianness.
 int strzcmp16_h_n(const char16_t *s1H, size_t n1, const char16_t *s2N, size_t n2);
 
+// Convert UTF-8 to UTF-16 including surrogate pairs
+void utf8_to_utf16(const uint8_t *src, size_t srcLen, char16_t* dst, const size_t dstLen);
+
 }
 
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
 namespace android {
 
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
+
 class String8;
 class TextOutput;