diff --git a/manifest b/manifest
index b598aeddd6..6d27274c2b 100644
--- a/manifest
+++ b/manifest
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-C On\sMinix,\sdisable\sthe\s".timer"\scommand\sin\sthe\sshell\sin\sorder\sto\savoid\ncalling\sgetrusage().
-D 2013-02-20T00:54:21.855
+C Two\snew\sSQL\sfunctions:\sunicode()\sand\schar().
+D 2013-02-22T19:34:25.685
 F Makefile.arm-wince-mingw32ce-gcc d6df77f1f48d690bd73162294bbba7f59507c72f
 F Makefile.in a48faa9e7dd7d556d84f5456eabe5825dd8a6282
 F Makefile.linux-gcc 91d710bdc4998cb015f39edf3cb314ec4f4d7e23
@@ -133,7 +133,7 @@ F src/delete.c 9b8d308979114991e5dc7cee958316e07186941d
 F src/expr.c f6c20285bd36e87ec47f4d840e90a32755e2a90c
 F src/fault.c 160a0c015b6c2629d3899ed2daf63d75754a32bb
 F src/fkey.c e16942bd5c8a868ac53287886464a5ed0e72b179
-F src/func.c 8147799b048065a1590805be464d05b4913e652c
+F src/func.c 18b120b9a34daf6d38d50969b6f3471c09b2934a
 F src/global.c e59ecd2c553ad0d4bfbc84ca71231336f8993a7a
 F src/hash.c ac3470bbf1ca4ae4e306a8ecb0fdf1731810ffe4
 F src/hash.h 2894c932d84d9f892d4b4023a75e501f83050970
@@ -508,7 +508,7 @@ F test/fts4merge2.test 5faa558d1b672f82b847d2a337465fa745e46891
 F test/fts4merge3.test aab02a09f50fe6baaddc2e159c3eabc116d45fc7
 F test/fts4unicode.test 25ccad45896f8e50f6a694cff738a35f798cdb40
 F test/full.test 6b3c8fb43c6beab6b95438c1675374b95fab245d
-F test/func.test 0d89043dab9a8853358d14c68e028ee0093bf066
+F test/func.test 0ea54895539c0586e86e2dcea59b05cc9e7dd6b2
 F test/func2.test 772d66227e4e6684b86053302e2d74a2500e1e0f
 F test/func3.test 001021e5b88bd02a3b365a5c5fd8f6f49d39744a
 F test/fuzz-oss1.test 4912e528ec9cf2f42134456933659d371c9e0d74
@@ -1034,7 +1034,10 @@ F tool/vdbe-compress.tcl f12c884766bd14277f4fcedcae07078011717381
 F tool/warnings-clang.sh f6aa929dc20ef1f856af04a730772f59283631d4
 F tool/warnings.sh fbc018d67fd7395f440c28f33ef0f94420226381
 F tool/win/sqlite.vsix 97894c2790eda7b5bce3cc79cb2a8ec2fde9b3ac
-P 06bd91305ed6752315c5224be5f89e87cafa6687
-R 14c0fedf89f00b14b7845aeac312ffca
+P 9bd9bd9cab8c804c1a51d472199459176044a633
+R 57460c96631f0b503379401f124964ab
+T *branch * unicode-function
+T *sym-unicode-function *
+T -sym-trunk *
 U drh
-Z 673b617e6189db9a51be1e6b0160e6d4
+Z ff410097880c23c389e99514cc7f5a15
diff --git a/manifest.uuid b/manifest.uuid
index 029dba568e..a2ef64dc19 100644
--- a/manifest.uuid
+++ b/manifest.uuid
@@ -1 +1 @@
-9bd9bd9cab8c804c1a51d472199459176044a633
\ No newline at end of file
+209b21085b9767f10f6ffb7c7cac756fcb74ded5
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/src/func.c b/src/func.c
index d4655ad7e9..98f2a2e96b 100644
--- a/src/func.c
+++ b/src/func.c
@@ -962,6 +962,56 @@ static void quoteFunc(sqlite3_context *context, int argc, sqlite3_value **argv){
   }
 }
 
+/*
+** The unicode() function.  Return the integer unicode code-point value
+** for the first character of the input string. 
+*/
+static void unicodeFunc(
+  sqlite3_context *context,
+  int argc,
+  sqlite3_value **argv
+){
+  const unsigned char *z = sqlite3_value_text(argv[0]);
+  if( z && z[0] ) sqlite3_result_int(context, sqlite3Utf8Read(&z));
+}
+
+/*
+** The char() function takes zero or more arguments, each of which is
+** an integer.  It constructs a string where each character of the string
+** is the unicode character for the corresponding integer argument.
+*/
+static void charFunc(
+  sqlite3_context *context,
+  int argc,
+  sqlite3_value **argv
+){
+  unsigned char *z, *zOut;
+  int i;
+  zOut = z = sqlite3_malloc( argc*4 );
+  if( z==0 ){
+    sqlite3_result_error_nomem(context);
+    return;
+  }
+  for(i=0; i<argc; i++){
+    sqlite3_int64 x = sqlite3_value_int64(argv[i]);
+    unsigned c;
+    x = sqlite3_value_int64(argv[i]);
+    if( x<0 || x>0x10ffff ) x = 0xfffd;
+    c = (unsigned)(x & 0x1fffff);
+    if( c<=0xFFFF ){
+      *zOut++ = (u8)(c&0x00FF);
+      *zOut++ = (u8)((c>>8)&0x00FF);
+    }else{
+      if( c>=0xd800 && c<=0xdbff ) c = 0xfffd;
+      *zOut++ = (u8)(((c>>10)&0x003F) + (((c-0x10000)>>10)&0x00C0));
+      *zOut++ = (u8)(0x00D8 + (((c-0x10000)>>18)&0x03));
+      *zOut++ = (u8)(c&0x00FF);
+      *zOut++ = (u8)(0x00DC + ((c>>8)&0x03));
+    }
+  }
+  sqlite3_result_text16le(context, (char*)z, (int)(zOut-z), sqlite3_free);
+}
+
 /*
 ** The hex() function.  Interpret the argument as a blob.  Return
 ** a hexadecimal rendering as text.
@@ -1589,6 +1639,8 @@ void sqlite3RegisterGlobalFunctions(void){
     FUNCTION(instr,              2, 0, 0, instrFunc        ),
     FUNCTION(substr,             2, 0, 0, substrFunc       ),
     FUNCTION(substr,             3, 0, 0, substrFunc       ),
+    FUNCTION(unicode,            1, 0, 0, unicodeFunc      ),
+    FUNCTION(char,              -1, 0, 0, charFunc         ),
     FUNCTION(abs,                1, 0, 0, absFunc          ),
 #ifndef SQLITE_OMIT_FLOATING_POINT
     FUNCTION(round,              1, 0, 0, roundFunc        ),
diff --git a/test/func.test b/test/func.test
index e44c44b280..3107e6df3f 100644
--- a/test/func.test
+++ b/test/func.test
@@ -1289,6 +1289,10 @@ do_test func-29.6 {
   if {$x<5} {set x 1}
   set x
 } {1}
-  
+
+do_execsql_test func-30.1 {SELECT unicode('$');} 36
+do_execsql_test func-30.2 {SELECT unicode('¢');} 162
+do_execsql_test func-30.3 {SELECT unicode('€');} 8364
+do_execsql_test func-30.4 {SELECT char(36,162,8364);} {$¢€}
 
 finish_test