On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 8:55 PM, Peter Bortas @ Pike developers forum 10353@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