diff --git a/fish-rust/src/builtins/echo.rs b/fish-rust/src/builtins/echo.rs
index 9b251cd87..f8b206481 100644
--- a/fish-rust/src/builtins/echo.rs
+++ b/fish-rust/src/builtins/echo.rs
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
 
 use super::shared::{builtin_missing_argument, io_streams_t, STATUS_CMD_OK, STATUS_INVALID_ARGS};
 use crate::ffi::parser_t;
-use crate::wchar::{wchar_literal_byte, wstr, WString, L};
+use crate::wchar::{encode_byte_to_char, wstr, WString, L};
 use crate::wgetopt::{wgetopter_t, woption};
 
 #[derive(Debug, Clone, Copy)]
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ pub fn echo(
                     {
                         consumed = digits_consumed;
                         // The narrow_val is a literal byte that we want to output (#1894).
-                        wchar_literal_byte(narrow_val)
+                        encode_byte_to_char(narrow_val)
                     } else {
                         consumed = 0;
                         '\\'
diff --git a/fish-rust/src/wchar.rs b/fish-rust/src/wchar.rs
index 4e2f9f75f..7f723e4f0 100644
--- a/fish-rust/src/wchar.rs
+++ b/fish-rust/src/wchar.rs
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ macro_rules! L {
 /// character.
 ///
 /// See https://github.com/fish-shell/fish-shell/issues/1894.
-pub fn wchar_literal_byte(byte: u8) -> char {
+pub fn encode_byte_to_char(byte: u8) -> char {
     char::from_u32(u32::from(ENCODE_DIRECT_BASE) + u32::from(byte))
         .expect("private-use codepoint should be valid char")
 }