diff --git a/serde/src/de/mod.rs b/serde/src/de/mod.rs
index d6b9f5ab4..a87558ec5 100644
--- a/serde/src/de/mod.rs
+++ b/serde/src/de/mod.rs
@@ -118,7 +118,6 @@ use crate::lib::*;
 
 pub mod value;
 
-mod format;
 mod ignored_any;
 mod impls;
 pub(crate) mod size_hint;
@@ -1374,7 +1373,7 @@ pub trait Visitor<'de>: Sized {
         E: Error,
     {
         let mut buf = [0u8; 58];
-        let mut writer = format::Buf::new(&mut buf);
+        let mut writer = crate::format::Buf::new(&mut buf);
         fmt::Write::write_fmt(&mut writer, format_args!("integer `{}` as i128", v)).unwrap();
         Err(Error::invalid_type(
             Unexpected::Other(writer.as_str()),
@@ -1436,7 +1435,7 @@ pub trait Visitor<'de>: Sized {
         E: Error,
     {
         let mut buf = [0u8; 57];
-        let mut writer = format::Buf::new(&mut buf);
+        let mut writer = crate::format::Buf::new(&mut buf);
         fmt::Write::write_fmt(&mut writer, format_args!("integer `{}` as u128", v)).unwrap();
         Err(Error::invalid_type(
             Unexpected::Other(writer.as_str()),
diff --git a/serde/src/de/format.rs b/serde/src/format.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from serde/src/de/format.rs
rename to serde/src/format.rs
diff --git a/serde/src/lib.rs b/serde/src/lib.rs
index 32509ca85..f40f6a60e 100644
--- a/serde/src/lib.rs
+++ b/serde/src/lib.rs
@@ -310,6 +310,8 @@ mod integer128;
 pub mod de;
 pub mod ser;
 
+mod format;
+
 #[doc(inline)]
 pub use crate::de::{Deserialize, Deserializer};
 #[doc(inline)]
diff --git a/serde/src/ser/impls.rs b/serde/src/ser/impls.rs
index aae7ec453..235c9cdeb 100644
--- a/serde/src/ser/impls.rs
+++ b/serde/src/ser/impls.rs
@@ -769,31 +769,6 @@ impl Serialize for SystemTime {
 
 ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
-#[cfg(any(feature = "std", not(no_core_net)))]
-struct Wrapper<'a> {
-    pub buf: &'a mut [u8],
-    pub offset: usize,
-}
-
-#[cfg(any(feature = "std", not(no_core_net)))]
-impl<'a> fmt::Write for Wrapper<'a> {
-    fn write_str(&mut self, s: &str) -> fmt::Result {
-        if self.offset > self.buf.len() {
-            return Err(fmt::Error);
-        }
-        let remaining_buf = &mut self.buf[self.offset..];
-        let raw_s = s.as_bytes();
-        let write_num = core::cmp::min(raw_s.len(), remaining_buf.len());
-        remaining_buf[..write_num].copy_from_slice(&raw_s[..write_num]);
-        self.offset += raw_s.len();
-        if write_num < raw_s.len() {
-            Err(fmt::Error)
-        } else {
-            Ok(())
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 /// Serialize a value that implements `Display` as a string, when that string is
 /// statically known to never have more than a constant `MAX_LEN` bytes.
 ///
@@ -802,21 +777,9 @@ impl<'a> fmt::Write for Wrapper<'a> {
 macro_rules! serialize_display_bounded_length {
     ($value:expr, $max:expr, $serializer:expr) => {{
         let mut buffer = [0u8; $max];
-        let written_len = {
-            let mut w = Wrapper {
-                buf: &mut buffer,
-                offset: 0,
-            };
-            write!(&mut w, "{}", $value).unwrap();
-            w.offset
-        };
-        let written = &buffer[..written_len];
-
-        // write! only provides fmt::Formatter to Display implementations, which
-        // has methods write_str and write_char but no method to write arbitrary
-        // bytes. Therefore `written` must be valid UTF-8.
-        let written_str = str::from_utf8(written).expect("must be valid UTF-8");
-        $serializer.serialize_str(written_str)
+        let mut writer = crate::format::Buf::new(&mut buffer);
+        write!(&mut writer, "{}", $value).unwrap();
+        $serializer.serialize_str(writer.as_str())
     }};
 }