On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Peter Bortas @ Pike developers forum
<10353(a)lyskom.lysator.liu.se> wrote:
> No. Nothing gets dropped from 8.0 at this point. If they should be
> dropped in the future we could still potentially mark them as
> depricated in 8.0.
>
> I'm not sure I understand your objection to them though. Is it just
> that they are redundant?
I keep getting reminded of them when I tab-complete "string_", but my
main objection is the confusing name. If they were called
string_to_utf16/utf16_to_string, as Arne suggests, then they wouldn't
be confusing; I'm not sure they're even needed at all, but they aren't
a *problem* per se.
ChrisA