diff --git a/crates/engine/src/tests.rs b/crates/engine/src/tests.rs
index 0759685ff6..111696b731 100644
--- a/crates/engine/src/tests.rs
+++ b/crates/engine/src/tests.rs
@@ -6146,6 +6146,17 @@ fn a_static_xfa_radio_group_with_numeric_items_keeps_the_picked_button() {
     }
 }
 
+/// The XFA data layer keeps its own copy of the forms crate's name spelling (it can't depend on
+/// forms), and a radio group's value only finds its button while the two agree: UTF-8 as
+/// itself, `#` and bytes that aren't UTF-8 as `#XX`.
+#[test]
+fn xfa_and_forms_spell_names_alike() {
+    for bytes in [&b"Yes"[..], b"", b"a b", b"A#1", "はい".as_bytes(), b"\x82\xcd\x82\xa2", b"\xff#\x00", b"\x7f\x20~"] {
+        assert_eq!(pdfcraft_xfa::data::name_text(bytes), pdfcraft_forms::name_text(bytes), "{bytes:?}");
+        assert_eq!(pdfcraft_forms::name_bytes(&pdfcraft_xfa::data::name_text(bytes)), bytes, "{bytes:?}");
+    }
+}
+
 /// Taking the XFA out of a radio group whose buttons carry `/PCOn` as well as `/Opt` (the item
 /// saving writes ahead of the `/Opt` entry) notes no lost data when the data holds that item:
 /// one equal to the on state, and one equal to neither the state nor the `/Opt` entry.
diff --git a/crates/xfa/src/data.rs b/crates/xfa/src/data.rs
index 1455586383..ba17c65ca6 100644
--- a/crates/xfa/src/data.rs
+++ b/crates/xfa/src/data.rs
@@ -36,9 +36,7 @@ pub use import::{DataImport, ImportNode, export_data, import_data, parse_data_fi
 pub use passwords::{clear_password_values, has_password_values};
 pub(crate) use path::template_field;
 pub use path::{data_path, parse_datasets, som_to_path};
-#[cfg(test)]
-pub(crate) use values::name_text;
-pub use values::{FieldData, FieldDatum, is_on, radio_dataset_value, radio_state_for_item, read_values, read_values_with};
+pub use values::{FieldData, FieldDatum, is_on, name_text, radio_dataset_value, radio_state_for_item, read_values, read_values_with};
 #[cfg(test)]
 pub(crate) use write::ENSURED;
 pub use write::{
diff --git a/crates/xfa/src/data/values.rs b/crates/xfa/src/data/values.rs
index 294b407540..3fb8b3ca97 100644
--- a/crates/xfa/src/data/values.rs
+++ b/crates/xfa/src/data/values.rs
@@ -76,7 +76,8 @@ fn radio_widgets(doc: &Document, f: &FieldDatum) -> Vec<(Option<String>, Option<
 /// written `#XX`, as in PDF name syntax. This is `pdfcraft_forms::name_text`, which this crate
 /// can't depend on; the value saving gets is read through it, and the state opening returns is
 /// written back through its inverse, `pdfcraft_forms::name_bytes`.
-pub(crate) fn name_text(bytes: &[u8]) -> String {
+/// The engine checks that the two spell names alike (`xfa_and_forms_spell_names_alike`).
+pub fn name_text(bytes: &[u8]) -> String {
     let escape = |b: u8| format!("#{b:02X}");
     match std::str::from_utf8(bytes) {
         Ok(s) => s.replace('#', "#23"),