diff --git a/openlp/core/utils/__init__.py b/openlp/core/utils/__init__.py
index 081870587..b0a28962c 100644
--- a/openlp/core/utils/__init__.py
+++ b/openlp/core/utils/__init__.py
@@ -459,25 +459,6 @@ def file_is_unicode(filename):
         return None
     return ucsfile
 
-def string_is_unicode(test_string):
-    """
-    Makes sure a string is unicode.
-
-    ``test_string``
-        The string to confirm is unicode.
-    """
-    return_string = u''
-    if not test_string:
-        return return_string
-    if isinstance(test_string, unicode):
-        return_string = test_string
-    if not isinstance(test_string, unicode):
-        try:
-            return_string = unicode(test_string, u'utf-8')
-        except UnicodeError:
-            log.exception("Error encoding string to unicode")
-    return return_string
-
 def get_uno_command():
     """
     Returns the UNO command to launch an openoffice.org instance.
@@ -510,5 +491,5 @@ from actions import ActionList
 
 __all__ = [u'AppLocation', u'get_application_version', u'check_latest_version',
     u'add_actions', u'get_filesystem_encoding', u'LanguageManager',
-    u'ActionList', u'get_web_page', u'file_is_unicode', u'string_is_unicode',
-    u'get_uno_command', u'get_uno_instance', u'delete_file']
+    u'ActionList', u'get_web_page', u'file_is_unicode', u'get_uno_command',
+    u'get_uno_instance', u'delete_file']