diff --git a/.zshrc b/.zshrc
index dc5dd1e..a86ba07 100644
--- a/.zshrc
+++ b/.zshrc
@@ -127,40 +127,3 @@ fi
 # for new style completion:
 autoload -U compinit
 compinit
-
-utf=`locale -a | grep en_US.utf8`
-if [ -n "$utf" ]
-then
-    # this is a bit of a hack -
-    # locale -a advertises the locale as "en_US.utf8",
-    # but the glibc accepts both "en_US.utf8" and
-    # "en_US.UTF-8" and xterm recogizes only the latter.
-    # So we explicitely set the latter, even though that's
-    # not the canonical name and may break some day.
-    # 
-    case "`uname -sr`" in
-    Linux*)
-	LANG=en_US.UTF-8
-	;;
-    HP-UX*)
-	# UTF-8 locale on HP-UX is broken
-	LANG=en_US.iso88591
-	;;
-    *)
-	LANG=en_US.utf8
-	;;
-    esac
-else 
-    # fall back to latin 1.
-    LANG=en_US.iso88591
-fi
-export LANG
-case "$LANG" in
-*.iso88591)
-	export LESSCHARSET=latin1
-	export NLS_LANG=american_america.WE8ISO8859P1
-	;;
-*.UTF-8)
-	export NLS_LANG=american_america.UTF8
-	;;
-esac