+
+
+/*
+=for apidoc A|U8 *|uvchr_to_utf8|U8 *d|UV uv
+
+Adds the UTF8 representation of the Native codepoint C<uv> to the end
+of the string C<d>; C<d> should be have at least C<UTF8_MAXLEN+1> free
+bytes available. The return value is the pointer to the byte after the
+end of the new character. In other words,
+
+ d = uvchr_to_utf8(d, uv);
+
+is the recommended wide native character-aware way of saying
+
+ *(d++) = uv;
+
+=cut
+*/
+
+/* On ASCII machines this is normally a macro but we want a
+ real function in case XS code wants it
+*/
+#undef Perl_uvchr_to_utf8
+U8 *
+Perl_uvchr_to_utf8(pTHX_ U8 *d, UV uv)
+{
+ return Perl_uvuni_to_utf8(aTHX_ d, NATIVE_TO_UNI(uv));
+}
+
+
+/*
+=for apidoc A|UV|utf8n_to_uvchr|U8 *s|STRLEN curlen|STRLEN *retlen|U32 flags
+
+Returns the native character value of the first character in the string C<s>
+which is assumed to be in UTF8 encoding; C<retlen> will be set to the
+length, in bytes, of that character.
+
+Allows length and flags to be passed to low level routine.
+
+=cut
+*/
+/* On ASCII machines this is normally a macro but we want a
+ real function in case XS code wants it
+*/
+#undef Perl_utf8n_to_uvchr
+UV
+Perl_utf8n_to_uvchr(pTHX_ U8 *s, STRLEN curlen, STRLEN *retlen, U32 flags)
+{
+ UV uv = Perl_utf8n_to_uvuni(aTHX_ s, curlen, retlen, flags);
+ return UNI_TO_NATIVE(uv);
+}
+
+