2 files changed, 0 insertions, 23 deletions
diff --git a/src/libstd_unicode/lib.rs b/src/libstd_unicode/lib.rs
index 1adf00e40f1..7e5ab1a54ab 100644
--- a/src/libstd_unicode/lib.rs
+++ b/src/libstd_unicode/lib.rs
@@ -47,7 +47,6 @@ pub mod char;
 #[allow(deprecated)]
 pub mod str {
     pub use u_str::{SplitWhitespace, UnicodeStr};
-    pub use u_str::is_utf16;
     pub use u_str::Utf16Encoder;
 }
 
diff --git a/src/libstd_unicode/u_str.rs b/src/libstd_unicode/u_str.rs
index 0ca6db9b0de..3c02ea82d2a 100644
--- a/src/libstd_unicode/u_str.rs
+++ b/src/libstd_unicode/u_str.rs
@@ -77,28 +77,6 @@ impl UnicodeStr for str {
     }
 }
 
-/// Determines if a vector of `u16` contains valid UTF-16
-pub fn is_utf16(v: &[u16]) -> bool {
-    let mut it = v.iter();
-    macro_rules! next { ($ret:expr) => {
-            match it.next() { Some(u) => *u, None => return $ret }
-        }
-    }
-    loop {
-        let u = next!(true);
-
-        match char::from_u32(u as u32) {
-            Some(_) => {}
-            None => {
-                let u2 = next!(false);
-                if u < 0xD7FF || u > 0xDBFF || u2 < 0xDC00 || u2 > 0xDFFF {
-                    return false;
-                }
-            }
-        }
-    }
-}
-
 /// Iterator adaptor for encoding `char`s to UTF-16.
 #[derive(Clone)]
 pub struct Utf16Encoder<I> {