// UTF-8 -> cp1251
STRING
  Tools::icu_u2s(CHAR *from)
{
  UText *ut = NULL;
  UChar uc[ICU_CONV_BUFFER];
  UErrorCode status = U_ZERO_ERROR;

  ut = utext_openUTF8(ut, from, -1, &status);
  utext_extract(ut, 0, strlen(from), uc, ICU_CONV_BUFFER, &status);

  char target[ICU_CONV_BUFFER];
  UConverter *conv;

  conv = ucnv_open("windows-1251", &status);
  ucnv_fromUChars(conv, target, ICU_CONV_BUFFER, uc, -1, &status);
  ucnv_close(conv);

  return _S(target);
}