Accommodate newly introduced source(s) in our MSVC project (libpbd)

[ardour.git] / libs / pbd / convert.cc

diff --git a/libs/pbd/convert.cc b/libs/pbd/convert.cc
index dd43475e6973583cc147feadc749be218afba673..c9af72750434e32dec7a4874d479cd4fe6545b1e 100644 (file)
--- a/libs/pbd/convert.cc
+++ b/libs/pbd/convert.cc
@@ -278,26 +278,6 @@ strings_equal_ignore_case (const string& a, const string& b)
        return false;
 }
 
-bool
-string_is_affirmative (const std::string& str)
-{
-       /* to be used only with XML data - not intended to handle user input */
-
-       if (str.empty ()) {
-               return false;
-       }
-
-       /* the use of g_ascii_strncasecmp() is solely to get around issues with
-        * charsets posed by trying to use C++ for the same
-        * comparison. switching a std::string to its lower- or upper-case
-        * version has several issues, but handled by default
-        * in the way we desire when doing it in C.
-        */
-
-       return str == "1" || str == "y" || str == "Y" || (!g_ascii_strncasecmp(str.c_str(), "yes", str.length())) ||
-               (!g_ascii_strncasecmp(str.c_str(), "true", str.length()));
-}
-
 /** A wrapper for dgettext that takes a msgid of the form Context|Text.
  *  If Context|Text is translated, the translation is returned, otherwise
  *  just Text is returned.  Useful for getting translations of words or phrases