diff --git a/src/common/stringops.cpp b/src/common/stringops.cpp
index 7cedab7cc0..84017ae523 100644
--- a/src/common/stringops.cpp
+++ b/src/common/stringops.cpp
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ wxWxCharBuffer wxStringOperationsWchar::EncodeNChars(size_t n, const wxUniChar&
 // UTF-8 sequences lengths
 // ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 
-static unsigned char wxStringOperationsUtf8::GetUTF8IterOffset(unsigned char c)
+unsigned char wxStringOperationsUtf8::GetUTF8IterOffset(unsigned char c)
 {
     unsigned char l = tableUtf8Lengths[c];
     if ( !l ) //skip over invalid characters