diff --git a/src/jsonconf.c b/src/jsonconf.c
index e04c7690c..f1e781cb0 100644
--- a/src/jsonconf.c
+++ b/src/jsonconf.c
@@ -1036,12 +1036,14 @@ static int include_po(const char *uri) {
     const char *filename = uri_to_file(uri, name, sizeof(name));
     const char *pos = strstr(filename, ".po");
     if (pos) {
+        size_t len;
         const char *str = --pos;
         while (str > filename && *str != '.') --str;
-        if ((pos - str) < sizeof(lname)) {
+        len = (size_t)(pos - str);
+        if (len < sizeof(lname)) {
             struct locale * lang;
-            memcpy(lname, str+1, pos - str);
-            lname[pos - str] = 0;
+            memcpy(lname, str+1, len);
+            lname[len] = 0;
             lang = get_or_create_locale(lname);
             if (lang) {
                 int err = pofile_read(filename, add_po_string, lang);
diff --git a/src/xmlreader.c b/src/xmlreader.c
index 1535cb208..b5dd272bd 100644
--- a/src/xmlreader.c
+++ b/src/xmlreader.c
@@ -83,16 +83,6 @@ static variant xml_fraction(xmlNodePtr node, const char *name) {
     return frac_make(0, 1);
 }
 
-static void xml_readtext(xmlNodePtr node, struct locale **lang, xmlChar ** text)
-{
-    xmlChar *propValue = xmlGetProp(node, BAD_CAST "locale");
-    assert(propValue != NULL);
-    *lang = get_locale((const char *)propValue);
-    xmlFree(propValue);
-
-    *text = xmlNodeListGetString(node->doc, node->children, 1);
-}
-
 static spellref *xml_spellref(xmlNode * node, const char *name)
 {
     xmlChar *propValue = xmlGetProp(node, BAD_CAST name);
@@ -104,31 +94,6 @@ static spellref *xml_spellref(xmlNode * node, const char *name)
     return NULL;
 }
 
-static xmlChar *xml_cleanup_string(xmlChar * str)
-{
-    xmlChar *read = str;
-    xmlChar *write = str;
-
-    while (*read) {
-        /* eat leading whitespace */
-        if (*read && isspace(*read)) {
-            while (*read && isspace(*read)) {
-                ++read;
-            }
-            *write++ = ' ';
-        }
-        while (*read) {
-            if (*read == '\n')
-                break;
-            if (*read == '\r')
-                break;
-            *write++ = *read++;
-        }
-    }
-    *write = 0;
-    return str;
-}
-
 static resource_mod * xml_readmodifiers(xmlXPathObjectPtr result, xmlNodePtr node) {
     /* reading eressea/resources/resource/modifier */
     if (result->nodesetval != NULL && result->nodesetval->nodeNr > 0) {