diff --git a/datafusion/functions/src/string/common.rs b/datafusion/functions/src/string/common.rs
index 3770fd5b96de..2585822d14ba 100644
--- a/datafusion/functions/src/string/common.rs
+++ b/datafusion/functions/src/string/common.rs
@@ -35,8 +35,7 @@ use datafusion_expr::ColumnarValue;
 
 /// Make a `u128` based on the given substr, start(offset to view.offset), and
 /// push into to the given buffers
-// TODO: tmp copy, remove after #12383 is merged
-fn make_and_append_view(
+pub(crate) fn make_and_append_view(
     views_buffer: &mut Vec<u128>,
     null_builder: &mut NullBufferBuilder,
     raw: &u128,
diff --git a/datafusion/functions/src/unicode/substr.rs b/datafusion/functions/src/unicode/substr.rs
index 1833971603ce..8376b15a13f4 100644
--- a/datafusion/functions/src/unicode/substr.rs
+++ b/datafusion/functions/src/unicode/substr.rs
@@ -19,10 +19,11 @@ use std::any::Any;
 use std::cmp::max;
 use std::sync::Arc;
 
+use crate::string::common::make_and_append_view;
 use crate::utils::{make_scalar_function, utf8_to_str_type};
 use arrow::array::{
-    make_view, Array, ArrayAccessor, ArrayIter, ArrayRef, AsArray, ByteView,
-    GenericStringArray, OffsetSizeTrait, StringViewArray,
+    Array, ArrayAccessor, ArrayIter, ArrayRef, AsArray, GenericStringArray,
+    OffsetSizeTrait, StringViewArray,
 };
 use arrow::datatypes::DataType;
 use arrow_buffer::{NullBufferBuilder, ScalarBuffer};
@@ -165,27 +166,6 @@ fn get_true_start_end(input: &str, start: i64, count: Option<u64>) -> (usize, us
     (st, ed)
 }
 
-/// Make a `u128` based on the given substr, start(offset to view.offset), and
-/// push into to the given buffers
-pub fn make_and_append_view(
-    views_buffer: &mut Vec<u128>,
-    null_builder: &mut NullBufferBuilder,
-    raw: &u128,
-    substr: &str,
-    start: u32,
-) {
-    let substr_len = substr.len();
-    let sub_view = if substr_len > 12 {
-        let view = ByteView::from(*raw);
-        make_view(substr.as_bytes(), view.buffer_index, view.offset + start)
-    } else {
-        // inline value does not need block id or offset
-        make_view(substr.as_bytes(), 0, 0)
-    };
-    views_buffer.push(sub_view);
-    null_builder.append_non_null();
-}
-
 // The decoding process refs the trait at: arrow/arrow-data/src/byte_view.rs:44
 // From<u128> for ByteView
 fn string_view_substr(