diff --git a/src/protocols/rdp/unicode.c b/src/protocols/rdp/unicode.c
index 2d628ee6..0e7b6015 100644
--- a/src/protocols/rdp/unicode.c
+++ b/src/protocols/rdp/unicode.c
@@ -60,3 +60,22 @@ void guac_rdp_utf16_to_utf8(const unsigned char* utf16, char* utf8, int length)
 
 }
 
+void guac_rdp_utf8_to_utf16(const unsigned char* utf8, char* utf16, int length) {
+
+    int i;
+    uint16_t* out_codepoint = (uint16_t*) utf16;
+
+    /* For each UTF-8 character */
+    for (i=0; i<length; i++) {
+
+        /* Get next codepoint */
+        int codepoint;
+        utf8 += guac_utf8_read((const char*) utf8, 4, &codepoint);
+
+        /* Save codepoint as UTF-16 */
+        *(out_codepoint++) = codepoint;
+
+    }
+
+}
+
diff --git a/src/protocols/rdp/unicode.h b/src/protocols/rdp/unicode.h
index 29016fb7..b59b74b5 100644
--- a/src/protocols/rdp/unicode.h
+++ b/src/protocols/rdp/unicode.h
@@ -40,3 +40,8 @@
  */
 void guac_rdp_utf16_to_utf8(const unsigned char* utf16, char* utf8, int length);
 
+/**
+ * Convert the given number of UTF-8 characters to UTF-16 characters.
+ */
+void guac_rdp_utf8_to_utf16(const unsigned char* utf8, char* utf16, int length);
+