+#if wxUSE_THREADS
+ // NB: iconv() is MT-safe, but each thread must use it's own iconv_t handle.
+ // Unfortunately there is a couple of global wxCSConv objects such as
+ // wxConvLocal that are used all over wx code, so we have to make sure
+ // the handle is used by at most one thread at the time. Otherwise
+ // only a few wx classes would be safe to use from non-main threads
+ // as MB<->WC conversion would fail "randomly".
+ wxMutexLocker lock(wxConstCast(this, wxMBConv_iconv)->m_iconvMutex);
+#endif
+