diff --git a/src/common/WindowsUtils.cpp b/src/common/WindowsUtils.cpp
index 0f9b9852fc..f4aef7cb3d 100644
--- a/src/common/WindowsUtils.cpp
+++ b/src/common/WindowsUtils.cpp
@@ -30,3 +30,16 @@ std::string WCharToUTF8(const wchar_t* input) {
     // This will allocate the returned std::string and then destroy result.
     return std::string(result.get(), result.get() + (requiredSize - 1));
 }
+
+std::wstring UTF8ToWStr(const char* input) {
+    // The -1 argument asks MultiByteToWideChar to use the null terminator to know the size of
+    // input. It will return a size that includes the null terminator.
+    int requiredSize = MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, input, -1, nullptr, 0);
+
+    // When we can use C++17 this can be changed to use string.data() instead.
+    std::unique_ptr<wchar_t[]> result = std::make_unique<wchar_t[]>(requiredSize);
+    MultiByteToWideChar(CP_UTF8, 0, input, -1, result.get(), requiredSize);
+
+    // This will allocate the returned std::string and then destroy result.
+    return std::wstring(result.get(), result.get() + (requiredSize - 1));
+}
diff --git a/src/common/WindowsUtils.h b/src/common/WindowsUtils.h
index 0c43d08aa4..3ab916bbcd 100644
--- a/src/common/WindowsUtils.h
+++ b/src/common/WindowsUtils.h
@@ -19,4 +19,6 @@
 
 std::string WCharToUTF8(const wchar_t* input);
 
+std::wstring UTF8ToWStr(const char* input);
+
 #endif  // COMMON_WINDOWSUTILS_H_
diff --git a/src/tests/unittests/WindowsUtilsTests.cpp b/src/tests/unittests/WindowsUtilsTests.cpp
index 7bc4cd75b9..fcf6b69419 100644
--- a/src/tests/unittests/WindowsUtilsTests.cpp
+++ b/src/tests/unittests/WindowsUtilsTests.cpp
@@ -31,4 +31,21 @@ TEST(WindowsUtilsTests, WCharToUTF8) {
 
     // Test three-byte utf8 codepoint
     ASSERT_EQ("\xe1\x81\x90", WCharToUTF8(L"\x1050"));
+}
+
+TEST(WindowsUtilsTests, UTF8ToWStr) {
+    // Test the empty string
+    ASSERT_EQ(L"", UTF8ToWStr(""));
+
+    // Test ASCII characters
+    ASSERT_EQ(L"abc", UTF8ToWStr("abc"));
+
+    // Test ASCII characters
+    ASSERT_EQ(L"abc", UTF8ToWStr("abc"));
+
+    // Test two-byte utf8 character
+    ASSERT_EQ(L"\x450", UTF8ToWStr("\xd1\x90"));
+
+    // Test three-byte utf8 codepoint
+    ASSERT_EQ(L"\x1050", UTF8ToWStr("\xe1\x81\x90"));
 }
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