-int utf8_encode_unichar(uint16_t c, char *p) {
- uint8_t *t = (uint8_t*) p;
+/**
+ * utf8_encode_unichar() - Encode single UCS-4 character as UTF-8
+ * @out_utf8: output buffer of at least 4 bytes or NULL
+ * @g: UCS-4 character to encode
+ *
+ * This encodes a single UCS-4 character as UTF-8 and writes it into @out_utf8.
+ * The length of the character is returned. It is not zero-terminated! If the
+ * output buffer is NULL, only the length is returned.
+ *
+ * Returns: The length in bytes that the UTF-8 representation does or would
+ * occupy.
+ */
+size_t utf8_encode_unichar(char *out_utf8, uint32_t g) {