diff --git a/prettyprinter/src/Prettyprinter.hs b/prettyprinter/src/Prettyprinter.hs
index bf44528e..8f75e9b9 100644
--- a/prettyprinter/src/Prettyprinter.hs
+++ b/prettyprinter/src/Prettyprinter.hs
@@ -202,6 +202,9 @@ module Prettyprinter (
     viaShow, unsafeViaShow,
     emptyDoc, nest, line, line', softline, softline', hardline,
 
+    -- ** Create from Text (unsafe)
+    unsafeTextWithLength, 
+
     -- ** Primitives for alternative layouts
     group, flatAlt,
 
diff --git a/prettyprinter/src/Prettyprinter/Internal.hs b/prettyprinter/src/Prettyprinter/Internal.hs
index ca4c0b10..63602c2d 100755
--- a/prettyprinter/src/Prettyprinter/Internal.hs
+++ b/prettyprinter/src/Prettyprinter/Internal.hs
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ module Prettyprinter.Internal (
     viaShow, unsafeViaShow, unsafeTextWithoutNewlines,
     emptyDoc, nest, line, line', softline, softline', hardline,
 
+    -- ** create doc directly from Text, unsafe
+    unsafeTextWithLength,
+
     -- ** Primitives for alternative layouts
     group, flatAlt,
 
@@ -476,6 +479,20 @@ unsafeTextWithoutNewlines text = case T.uncons text of
         | T.null ext -> Char t
         | otherwise -> Text (T.length text) text
 
+-- | @(unsafeTextWithLength t l)@ convert text @t@ of length @l@ into Doc.
+-- 
+-- The string must not contain any newline characters.
+--
+-- The real length can be specified manually when there are some wide character 
+-- or emojis in the string, so that it can be layed out correctly.
+--
+-- For example using doclayout to get the real length
+-- @
+--      unsafeTextWithLength "😃" (realLength "😃")
+-- @
+unsafeTextWithLength :: Text -> Int -> Doc ann
+unsafeTextWithLength txt l = Text l txt
+
 -- | The empty document behaves like @('pretty' "")@, so it has a height of 1.
 -- This may lead to surprising behaviour if we expect it to bear no weight
 -- inside e.g. 'vcat', where we get an empty line of output from it ('parens'