diff --git a/plugins/mumble_plugin_linux.h b/plugins/mumble_plugin_linux.h
index e4f3b2316..6cdb1b2e8 100644
--- a/plugins/mumble_plugin_linux.h
+++ b/plugins/mumble_plugin_linux.h
@@ -10,35 +10,17 @@
 #	error "Include mumble_plugin_main.h instead of mumble_plugin_linux.h"
 #endif
 
+#include "mumble_plugin_utils.h"
+
 #include <cstring>
 #include <elf.h>
-#include <fstream>
 #include <iostream>
-#include <math.h>
 #include <sstream>
 #include <stdio.h>
 #include <stdlib.h>
 #include <string>
 #include <sys/uio.h>
 
-static inline std::string readAll(const std::string &fn) {
-	std::ifstream ifs;
-	ifs.open(fn.c_str(), std::ifstream::binary);
-
-	std::string content;
-
-	char buf[256];
-	while (ifs.good()) {
-		ifs.read(&buf[0], sizeof(buf));
-		size_t nread = ifs.gcount();
-		if (nread > 0) {
-			content.append(&buf[0], nread);
-		}
-	}
-
-	return content;
-}
-
 // This function returns:
 // -1 in case of failure.
 // 0 if the process is 32-bit.
@@ -100,7 +82,7 @@ static inline procptr_t getModuleAddr(const procid_t &pid, const wchar_t *modnam
 	ss << static_cast< unsigned long >(pid);
 	ss << std::string("/maps");
 	std::string mapsFn = ss.str();
-	std::string maps   = readAll(mapsFn);
+	std::string maps   = readFile(mapsFn);
 
 	if (maps.size() == 0) {
 		return 0;
diff --git a/plugins/mumble_plugin_utils.h b/plugins/mumble_plugin_utils.h
index ce21fd426..4c690b169 100644
--- a/plugins/mumble_plugin_utils.h
+++ b/plugins/mumble_plugin_utils.h
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
 #ifndef MUMBLE_MUMBLE_PLUGIN_UTILS_H_
 #define MUMBLE_MUMBLE_PLUGIN_UTILS_H_
 
+#include <cmath>
 #include <codecvt>
+#include <fstream>
 #include <locale>
 
 #ifdef OS_LINUX
@@ -14,6 +16,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #ifdef _MSC_VER
+#	include <corecrt_math_defines.h>
 #	include <intrin.h>
 #endif
 
@@ -30,6 +33,11 @@ static inline std::string utf16ToUtf8(const std::wstring &wstr) {
 	return conv.to_bytes(wstr);
 }
 
+static inline std::wstring utf8ToUtf16(const std::string &str) {
+	std::wstring_convert< std::codecvt_utf8_utf16< wchar_t > > conv;
+	return conv.from_bytes(str);
+}
+
 // escape lossily converts the given
 // string to ASCII, replacing any
 // character not within the printable
@@ -71,6 +79,23 @@ static inline void escape(char *str, const size_t &size) {
 	}
 }
 
+/// Reads the file's content and returns it in a std::string.
+static inline std::string readFile(const std::string &path) {
+	std::ifstream ifs(path, std::ifstream::binary);
+	std::string content;
+	char buf[256];
+
+	while (ifs.good()) {
+		ifs.read(&buf[0], sizeof(buf));
+		size_t read = ifs.gcount();
+		if (read > 0) {
+			content.append(&buf[0], read);
+		}
+	}
+
+	return content;
+}
+
 /// Calculates sine and cosine of the specified value.
 /// On Linux the calculation is guaranteed to be simultaneous.
 static inline bool sinCos(const float value, float &outSin, float &outCos) {