diff --git a/libcutils/Android.bp b/libcutils/Android.bp
index 5144fc6..b9420d4 100644
--- a/libcutils/Android.bp
+++ b/libcutils/Android.bp
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@
         "native_handle.cpp",
         "record_stream.cpp",
         "sockets.cpp",
-        "strdup16to8.cpp",
         "strlcpy.c",
         "threads.cpp",
     ],
diff --git a/libcutils/include/cutils/jstring.h b/libcutils/include/cutils/jstring.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 6ede786..0000000
--- a/libcutils/include/cutils/jstring.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-/*
- * Copyright (C) 2006 The Android Open Source Project
- *
- * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
- * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
- * You may obtain a copy of the License at
- *
- *      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
- *
- * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
- * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
- * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
- * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
- * limitations under the License.
- */
-
-#pragma once
-
-#include <stdint.h>
-#include <stddef.h>
-
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-extern "C" {
-#endif
-
-#if __STDC_VERSION__ < 201112L && __cplusplus < 201103L
-  typedef uint16_t char16_t;
-#endif
-  // otherwise char16_t is a keyword with the right semantics
-
-extern char * strndup16to8 (const char16_t* s, size_t n);
-extern size_t strnlen16to8 (const char16_t* s, size_t n);
-extern char * strncpy16to8 (char *dest, const char16_t*s, size_t n);
-
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-}
-#endif
diff --git a/libcutils/include_vndk/cutils/jstring.h b/libcutils/include_vndk/cutils/jstring.h
deleted file mode 120000
index f3fd546..0000000
--- a/libcutils/include_vndk/cutils/jstring.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../include/cutils/jstring.h
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/libcutils/strdup16to8.cpp b/libcutils/strdup16to8.cpp
deleted file mode 100644
index d89181e..0000000
--- a/libcutils/strdup16to8.cpp
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,168 +0,0 @@
-/* libs/cutils/strdup16to8.c
-**
-** Copyright 2006, The Android Open Source Project
-**
-** Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); 
-** you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. 
-** You may obtain a copy of the License at 
-**
-**     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 
-**
-** Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software 
-** distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, 
-** WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. 
-** See the License for the specific language governing permissions and 
-** limitations under the License.
-*/
-
-#include <cutils/jstring.h>
-
-#include <assert.h>
-#include <limits.h>  /* for SIZE_MAX */
-#include <stdlib.h>
-
-
-/**
- * Given a UTF-16 string, compute the length of the corresponding UTF-8
- * string in bytes.
- */
-extern size_t strnlen16to8(const char16_t* utf16Str, size_t len)
-{
-    size_t utf8Len = 0;
-
-    /* A small note on integer overflow. The result can
-     * potentially be as big as 3*len, which will overflow
-     * for len > SIZE_MAX/3.
-     *
-     * Moreover, the result of a strnlen16to8 is typically used
-     * to allocate a destination buffer to strncpy16to8 which
-     * requires one more byte to terminate the UTF-8 copy, and
-     * this is generally done by careless users by incrementing
-     * the result without checking for integer overflows, e.g.:
-     *
-     *   dst = malloc(strnlen16to8(utf16,len)+1)
-     *
-     * Due to this, the following code will try to detect
-     * overflows, and never return more than (SIZE_MAX-1)
-     * when it detects one. A careless user will try to malloc
-     * SIZE_MAX bytes, which will return NULL which can at least
-     * be detected appropriately.
-     *
-     * As far as I know, this function is only used by strndup16(),
-     * but better be safe than sorry.
-     */
-
-    /* Fast path for the usual case where 3*len is < SIZE_MAX-1.
-     */
-    if (len < (SIZE_MAX-1)/3) {
-        while (len != 0) {
-            len--;
-            unsigned int uic = *utf16Str++;
-
-            if (uic > 0x07ff)
-                utf8Len += 3;
-            else if (uic > 0x7f || uic == 0)
-                utf8Len += 2;
-            else
-                utf8Len++;
-        }
-        return utf8Len;
-    }
-
-    /* The slower but paranoid version */
-    while (len != 0) {
-        len--;
-        unsigned int  uic     = *utf16Str++;
-        size_t        utf8Cur = utf8Len;
-
-        if (uic > 0x07ff)
-            utf8Len += 3;
-        else if (uic > 0x7f || uic == 0)
-            utf8Len += 2;
-        else
-            utf8Len++;
-
-        if (utf8Len < utf8Cur) /* overflow detected */
-            return SIZE_MAX-1;
-    }
-
-    /* don't return SIZE_MAX to avoid common user bug */
-    if (utf8Len == SIZE_MAX)
-        utf8Len = SIZE_MAX-1;
-
-    return utf8Len;
-}
-
-
-/**
- * Convert a Java-Style UTF-16 string + length to a JNI-Style UTF-8 string.
- *
- * This basically means: embedded \0's in the UTF-16 string are encoded
- * as "0xc0 0x80"
- *
- * Make sure you allocate "utf8Str" with the result of strlen16to8() + 1,
- * not just "len".
- *
- * Please note, a terminated \0 is always added, so your result will always
- * be "strlen16to8() + 1" bytes long.
- */
-extern char* strncpy16to8(char* utf8Str, const char16_t* utf16Str, size_t len)
-{
-    char* utf8cur = utf8Str;
-
-    /* Note on overflows: We assume the user did check the result of
-     * strnlen16to8() properly or at a minimum checked the result of
-     * its malloc(SIZE_MAX) in case of overflow.
-     */
-    while (len != 0) {
-        len--;
-        unsigned int uic = *utf16Str++;
-
-        if (uic > 0x07ff) {
-            *utf8cur++ = (uic >> 12) | 0xe0;
-            *utf8cur++ = ((uic >> 6) & 0x3f) | 0x80;
-            *utf8cur++ = (uic & 0x3f) | 0x80;
-        } else if (uic > 0x7f || uic == 0) {
-            *utf8cur++ = (uic >> 6) | 0xc0;
-            *utf8cur++ = (uic & 0x3f) | 0x80;
-        } else {
-            *utf8cur++ = uic;
-
-            if (uic == 0) {
-                break;
-            }
-        }
-    }
-
-   *utf8cur = '\0';
-
-   return utf8Str;
-}
-
-/**
- * Convert a UTF-16 string to UTF-8.
- *
- */
-char * strndup16to8 (const char16_t* s, size_t n)
-{
-    if (s == NULL) {
-        return NULL;
-    }
-
-    size_t len = strnlen16to8(s, n);
-
-    /* We are paranoid, and we check for SIZE_MAX-1
-     * too since it is an overflow value for our
-     * strnlen16to8 implementation.
-     */
-    if (len >= SIZE_MAX-1)
-        return NULL;
-
-    char* ret = static_cast<char*>(malloc(len + 1));
-    if (ret == NULL)
-        return NULL;
-
-    strncpy16to8 (ret, s, n);
-
-    return ret;
-}