Index: src/utf.c
==================================================================
--- src/utf.c
+++ src/utf.c
@@ -10,11 +10,11 @@
 **
 *************************************************************************
 ** This file contains routines used to translate between UTF-8, 
 ** UTF-16, UTF-16BE, and UTF-16LE.
 **
-** $Id: utf.c,v 1.34 2005/12/15 03:04:11 drh Exp $
+** $Id: utf.c,v 1.35 2005/12/15 22:34:01 drh Exp $
 **
 ** Notes on UTF-8:
 **
 **   Byte-0    Byte-1    Byte-2    Byte-3    Value
 **  0xxxxxxx                                 00000000 00000000 0xxxxxxx
@@ -460,11 +460,13 @@
 char *sqlite3utf16to8(const void *z, int nByte){
   Mem m;
   memset(&m, 0, sizeof(m));
   sqlite3VdbeMemSetStr(&m, z, nByte, SQLITE_UTF16NATIVE, SQLITE_STATIC);
   sqlite3VdbeChangeEncoding(&m, SQLITE_UTF8);
-  return m.z;
+  assert( m.flags & MEM_Term );
+  assert( m.flags & MEM_Str );
+  return (m.flags & MEM_Dyn)!=0 ? m.z : sqlite3StrDup(m.z);
 }
 
 /*
 ** pZ is a UTF-16 encoded unicode string. If nChar is less than zero,
 ** return the number of bytes up to (but not including), the first pair