+/// convert ucs4 character \p c to encoding \p encoding.
+/// \p encoding must be a valid iconv 8bit encoding
+char ucs4_to_eightbit(char_type c, std::string const & encoding);
+
+///
+void ucs4_to_multibytes(char_type ucs4, std::vector<char> & out,
+ std::string const & encoding);
+