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+// Copyright (C) 2020 Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. ("ISC")
+//
+// This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+// License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+// file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+
+#ifndef UTF8_H
+#define UTF8_H 1
+
+#include <stdint.h>
+#include <string>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace isc {
+namespace util {
+namespace encode {
+/// @brief Encode value string into UTF-8.
+///
+/// @param value A string in latin1 i.e. no encoding.
+/// @return A vector object storing the data encoded in UTF-8.
+std::vector<uint8_t> encodeUtf8(const std::string& value);
+
+} // namespace encode
+} // namespace util
+} // namespace isc
+
+#endif // UTF8_H