diff --git a/intl/uconv/idl/nsICharsetConverterManager2.idl b/intl/uconv/idl/nsICharsetConverterManager2.idl
index 64d1639e6ea..814be228a43 100644
--- a/intl/uconv/idl/nsICharsetConverterManager2.idl
+++ b/intl/uconv/idl/nsICharsetConverterManager2.idl
@@ -45,6 +45,11 @@
  * If these problems will hurt us, we'll switch to nsICharacterSet. The 
  * implementation of this interface is ment to be quite flexible.
  *
+ * I provide here some nonscriptable "friendly methods". They accept nsString 
+ * as params and assign the result to them, freeing the received memory result.
+ * These methods are prone to optimisation, in order to elliminate any 
+ * allocation when it not strictly necessary.
+ *
  * @created         21/Feb/2000
  * @author  Catalin Rotaru [CATA]
  */
@@ -88,6 +93,12 @@ interface nsICharsetConverterManager2 : nsISupports
    */
   wstring GetCharsetTitle([const] in nsIAtom charset);
 
+  /**
+   * Friendlier but non scriptable version.
+   */
+  [noscript] void GetCharsetTitle2([const] in nsIAtom charset, 
+    in nsStringPtr str);
+
   /**
    * Get some data about the given charset.
    */
diff --git a/intl/uconv/src/nsCharsetConverterManager.cpp b/intl/uconv/src/nsCharsetConverterManager.cpp
index 213989e03b5..8fdace744a7 100644
--- a/intl/uconv/src/nsCharsetConverterManager.cpp
+++ b/intl/uconv/src/nsCharsetConverterManager.cpp
@@ -66,6 +66,8 @@ public:
 /**
  * The actual implementation of the nsICharsetConverterManager interface.
  *
+ * XXX optimise the memory allocations in "scriptable" and "friendly" methods
+ *
  * @created         15/Nov/1999
  * @author  Catalin Rotaru [CATA]
  */
@@ -160,6 +162,7 @@ public:
 
   NS_IMETHOD GetCharsetAtom(const PRUnichar * aCharset, nsIAtom ** aResult);
   NS_IMETHOD GetCharsetTitle(const nsIAtom * aCharset, PRUnichar ** aResult);
+  NS_IMETHOD GetCharsetTitle2(const nsIAtom * aCharset, nsString * aResult);
   NS_IMETHOD GetCharsetData(const nsIAtom * aCharset, const PRUnichar * aProp, 
     PRUnichar ** aResult);
   NS_IMETHOD GetCharsetData2(const nsIAtom * aCharset, const PRUnichar * aProp, 
@@ -1054,6 +1057,23 @@ NS_IMETHODIMP nsCharsetConverterManager::GetCharsetTitle(
   return res;
 }
 
+NS_IMETHODIMP nsCharsetConverterManager::GetCharsetTitle2(
+                                         const nsIAtom * aCharset, 
+                                         nsString * aResult)
+{
+  if (aResult == NULL) return NS_ERROR_NULL_POINTER;
+
+  nsresult res = NS_OK;
+
+  PRUnichar * title;
+  res = GetCharsetTitle(aCharset, &title);
+  if (NS_FAILED(res)) return res;
+
+  aResult->Assign(title);
+  PR_Free(title);
+  return res;
+}
+
 NS_IMETHODIMP nsCharsetConverterManager::GetCharsetData(
                                          const nsIAtom * aCharset, 
                                          const PRUnichar * aProp,