+typedef struct strbuf strbuf;
+strbuf *strbuf_new(void);
+void strbuf_free(strbuf *buf);
+char *strbuf_str(strbuf *buf); /* does not free buf */
+char *strbuf_to_str(strbuf *buf); /* does free buf, but you must free result */
+void strbuf_catf(strbuf *buf, const char *fmt, ...);
+void strbuf_catfv(strbuf *buf, const char *fmt, va_list ap);
+
+/* String-to-Unicode converters that auto-allocate the destination and
+ * work around the rather deficient interface of mb_to_wc.
+ *
+ * These actually live in miscucs.c, not misc.c (the distinction being
+ * that the former is only linked into tools that also have the main
+ * Unicode support). */
+wchar_t *dup_mb_to_wc_c(int codepage, int flags, const char *string, int len);
+wchar_t *dup_mb_to_wc(int codepage, int flags, const char *string);