diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 172e7471..9ed40115 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Tue Oct 22 16:27:31 CEST 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
+
+	* include/libxml/encoding.h encoding.c: made xmlGetUTF8Char public
+
 Tue Oct 22 16:25:18 CEST 2002 Daniel Veillard <daniel@veillard.com>
 
 	* debugXML.c: adding a grep command to --shell in xmllint
diff --git a/encoding.c b/encoding.c
index 69b3dacc..2faa7254 100644
--- a/encoding.c
+++ b/encoding.c
@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ xmlUTF8Strlen(const xmlChar *utf) {
  * Returns the char value or -1 in case of error and update @len with the
  *        number of bytes used
  */
-static int
+int
 xmlGetUTF8Char(const unsigned char *utf, int *len) {
     unsigned int c;
 
diff --git a/include/libxml/encoding.h b/include/libxml/encoding.h
index 27bdd1be..9a326127 100644
--- a/include/libxml/encoding.h
+++ b/include/libxml/encoding.h
@@ -204,6 +204,8 @@ int	isolat1ToUTF8			(unsigned char *out,
 					 int *outlen,
 					 const unsigned char *in,
 					 int *inlen);
+int	xmlGetUTF8Char			(const unsigned char *utf,
+					 int *len);
 /*
  * exports additional "UTF-8 aware" string routines which are.
  */