diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
index 81f7ec558..90a87d6b5 100644
--- a/.gitmodules
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -52,3 +52,6 @@
 [submodule "third_party/SDL2-devel-VC"]
 	path = third_party/SDL2-devel-VC
 	url = https://github.com/xenia-project/SDL2-devel-VC.git
+[submodule "third_party/utfcpp"]
+	path = third_party/utfcpp
+	url = https://github.com/xenia-project/utfcpp.git
diff --git a/third_party/utfcpp b/third_party/utfcpp
new file mode 160000
index 000000000..f295c4b9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/third_party/utfcpp
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit f295c4b9a1f4db635164ab4defc3938049152a3c