diff --git a/util.cc b/util.cc
index 7a4b4c27e..fb6c83b82 100644
--- a/util.cc
+++ b/util.cc
@@ -46,7 +46,6 @@
 #include <QtGlobal>                     // for qAsConst, QAddConst<>::Type, qPrintable
 
 #include "defs.h"
-#include "cet.h"                        // for cet_utf8_to_ucs4
 #include "src/core/datetime.h"          // for DateTime
 #include "src/core/logging.h"           // for Warning
 #include "src/core/xmltag.h"            // for xml_tag, xml_attribute, xml_findfirst, xml_findnext
@@ -1524,16 +1523,13 @@ static
 char*
 entitize(const char* str, bool is_html)
 {
-  int ecount;
-  int nsecount;
   char* p;
   char* tmp;
   char* xstr;
 
-  int bytes = 0;
-  int value = 0;
   entity_types* ep = stdentities;
-  int elen = ecount = nsecount = 0;
+  int elen = 0;
+  int ecount = 0;
 
   /* figure # of entity replacements and additional size. */
   while (ep->text) {
@@ -1546,29 +1542,10 @@ entitize(const char* str, bool is_html)
     ep++;
   }
 
-  /* figure the same for other than standard entities (i.e. anything
-   * that isn't in the range U+0000 to U+007F */
-
-#if 0
-  for (cp = str; *cp; cp++) {
-    if (*cp & 0x80) {
-      cet_utf8_to_ucs4(cp, &bytes, &value);
-      cp += bytes-1;
-      elen += sprintf(tmpsub, "&#x%x;", value) - bytes;
-      nsecount++;
-    }
-  }
-#endif
-
   /* enough space for the whole string plus entity replacements, if any */
   tmp = (char*) xcalloc((strlen(str) + elen + 1), 1);
   strcpy(tmp, str);
 
-  /* no entity replacements */
-  if (ecount == 0 && nsecount == 0) {
-    return (tmp);
-  }
-
   if (ecount != 0) {
     for (ep = stdentities; ep->text; ep++) {
       p = tmp;
@@ -1590,27 +1567,6 @@ entitize(const char* str, bool is_html)
     }
   }
 
-  if (nsecount != 0) {
-    p = tmp;
-    while (*p) {
-      if (*p & 0x80) {
-        cet_utf8_to_ucs4(p, &bytes, &value);
-        if (p[bytes]) {
-          xstr = xstrdup(p + bytes);
-        } else {
-          xstr = nullptr;
-        }
-        sprintf(p, "&#x%x;", value);
-        p = p+strlen(p);
-        if (xstr) {
-          strcpy(p, xstr);
-          xfree(xstr);
-        }
-      } else {
-        p++;
-      }
-    }
-  }
   return (tmp);
 }