We consider the functional equation  where  is a given homeomorphism of an open interval  and  is an unknown continuous function. A characterization of the class  of continuous solutions  is given in a series of papers by Kahlig and Smítal 1998–2002, and in a recent paper by Reich et al. 2004, in the case when  is increasing. In the present paper we solve the converse problem, for which continuous maps , where  is an interval, there is an increasing homeomorphism  of  such that . We...