diff --git a/framework/source/services/substitutepathvars.cxx b/framework/source/services/substitutepathvars.cxx
index 9ac3c21cf87f..fbab8a466532 100644
--- a/framework/source/services/substitutepathvars.cxx
+++ b/framework/source/services/substitutepathvars.cxx
@@ -375,11 +375,9 @@ const rtl::OUString& SubstitutePathVariables_Impl::GetNTDomainName()
 
 const rtl::OUString& SubstitutePathVariables_Impl::GetHostName()
 {
-    if ( !m_bHostRetrieved )
+    if (!m_bHostRetrieved)
     {
-        rtl::OUString   aHostName;
         oslSocketResult aSocketResult;
-
         m_aHost = osl::SocketAddr::getLocalHostname( &aSocketResult ).toAsciiLowerCase();
     }
 
@@ -1133,8 +1131,8 @@ throw ( NoSuchElementException, RuntimeException )
                 aVariable = rVariable.copy( 2, rVariable.getLength() - 3 );
             else
             {
-                rtl::OUString aExceptionText( RTL_CONSTASCII_USTRINGPARAM( "Unknown variable!" ));
-                throw NoSuchElementException();
+                OUString aExceptionText("Unknown variable!");
+                throw NoSuchElementException(aExceptionText, (cppu::OWeakObject *)this);
             }
         }
         else
@@ -1148,8 +1146,8 @@ throw ( NoSuchElementException, RuntimeException )
             return pIter->second.aSubstValue;
         }
 
-        rtl::OUString aExceptionText( RTL_CONSTASCII_USTRINGPARAM( "Unknown variable!" ));
-        throw NoSuchElementException( aExceptionText, (cppu::OWeakObject *)this );
+        OUString aExceptionText("Unknown variable!");
+        throw NoSuchElementException(aExceptionText, (cppu::OWeakObject *)this);
     }
 }
 
diff --git a/sal/qa/osl/file/osl_old_test_file.cxx b/sal/qa/osl/file/osl_old_test_file.cxx
index 1cdb283d7a80..0d2379e0fa75 100644
--- a/sal/qa/osl/file/osl_old_test_file.cxx
+++ b/sal/qa/osl/file/osl_old_test_file.cxx
@@ -173,9 +173,6 @@ void oldtestfile::test_file_004()
         {
             CPPUNIT_ASSERT_MESSAGE("failure #10.1",  target.equalsAscii( aSource1[i+1] ) );
         }
-        OString o = OUStringToOString( target , RTL_TEXTENCODING_ASCII_US );
-        OString obase = OUStringToOString( base4 , RTL_TEXTENCODING_ASCII_US );
-        //fprintf( stderr, "%d %s + %s = %s\n" ,e, obase.getStr(), aSource1[i], o.pData->buffer );
     }
 #endif
 }
diff --git a/sal/qa/osl/module/osl_Module_Const.h b/sal/qa/osl/module/osl_Module_Const.h
index 00de78d9d838..544c525c0252 100644
--- a/sal/qa/osl/module/osl_Module_Const.h
+++ b/sal/qa/osl/module/osl_Module_Const.h
@@ -47,15 +47,6 @@
 
 #   define FILE_PREFIX          "file:///"
 
-//Korea charactors
-::rtl::OUString aKname(
-    RTL_CONSTASCII_STRINGPARAM(
-        "/\xEC\x95\x88\xEB\x85\x95\xED\x95\x98\xEC\x84\xB8\xEC\x9A\x94"),
-    RTL_TEXTENCODING_ISO_8859_1);
-    // zero-extend the individual byte-sized characters one-to-one to individual
-    // sal_Unicode-sized characters; not sure whether this is what was
-    // intended...
-
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------
 // function pointer type.
 //------------------------------------------------------------------------
diff --git a/sal/qa/rtl/cipher/rtl_cipher.cxx b/sal/qa/rtl/cipher/rtl_cipher.cxx
index 2b982e51e7f1..9514bd5ff27c 100644
--- a/sal/qa/rtl/cipher/rtl_cipher.cxx
+++ b/sal/qa/rtl/cipher/rtl_cipher.cxx
@@ -258,8 +258,6 @@ public:
             /* rtlCipherError */ aError = rtl_cipher_decode(aCipher, pCipherBuffer, nCipherLen, pPlainText2Buffer, nPlainText2Len);
             CPPUNIT_ASSERT_MESSAGE("wrong decode", aError == rtl_Cipher_E_None);
 
-            rtl::OString sPlainText2Str((char*)pPlainText2Buffer, nPlainText2Len);
-
             sal_Int32 nCompare = memcmp(pPlainTextBuffer, pPlainText2Buffer, 16);
 
             CPPUNIT_ASSERT_MESSAGE("compare between plain and decoded plain failed", nCompare == 0);