That's nice, except theres no guarantee the string class has such a function. Yes, std::string does, but AngelScript allows you to use any string class. It would require the use of a reverse-StringFactory function, and angelscript would have to carefully manage the memory involved. On the other hand, you could change your own classes' interface, or wrap them if changes are not possible. There are reasons std::string is prefered to char*, and you should never have a reason to use char* over std::string, unless your code is C.

the string cpp included in angel script is just an addon not part of the engine, that said it would require some extra option in the engine to make the string magical so it converts alone.

At the end string is much better than char* as Deyja said. Unless you are using c in that case you can change the string addon (aka making a new one) that uses char* instead of std:string.

I have already been thinking about implementing some way that would allow the application to tell AngelScript to convert a type just before calling a registered function. That would allow AngelScript to convert for example a string to const char * when passing it as a parameter. But any such implementation will not be done for a while yet, because I don't have the time to do so.

Until then I'm afraid you'll have to standardize your application-script interface so that all your functions work with the same string type. Or you could write manual functions for converting between one string type to another.