diff --git a/src/zapit/include/zapit/client/zapittools.h b/src/zapit/include/zapit/client/zapittools.h
index 5af91e8ee..bd60d0443 100644
--- a/src/zapit/include/zapit/client/zapittools.h
+++ b/src/zapit/include/zapit/client/zapittools.h
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ namespace ZapitTools
 	std::string UTF8_to_Latin1 (const char *);
 	std::string UTF8_to_UTF8XML(const char *);
 	std::string Latin1_to_UTF8 (const char *);
+	std::string Latin1_to_UTF8 (const std::string &s);
 	void replace_char(char * p_act);
 }
 
diff --git a/src/zapit/lib/zapittools.cpp b/src/zapit/lib/zapittools.cpp
index d5170429b..677aeb67e 100644
--- a/src/zapit/lib/zapittools.cpp
+++ b/src/zapit/lib/zapittools.cpp
@@ -121,6 +121,10 @@ namespace ZapitTools {
 		}
 		return r;
 	}
+	std::string Latin1_to_UTF8(const std::string & s)
+	{
+		return Latin1_to_UTF8(s.c_str());
+	}
 	
 	void replace_char(char * p_act)
 	{