diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index e91f1ea2..f81f5772 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ documentation; ronn is required.
 
 Additionally, other usual "core utilities" are required:
 
-    cat, chmod, cp, echo, false, find, install, ln, msguniq, rm, tr,
+    cat, chmod, cp, echo, false, find, install, ln, rm, tr,
     xgettext
 
 Also, `/bin/sh` must support `{brace,expansion}`.  If it doesn't, find
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e7b35e41..c656a88d 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ $(outdir)/shellcheck:
 
 _po_rule = \
 po/%(pkg).pot: $(addsuffix /everything.pot,$(pkg.%(pkg))); \
-	cat $^ | msguniq -Fi --to-code=UTF-8 > '$@'
+	cat $^
 $(eval $(foreach pkg,$(pkgs),\
   $(subst %(pkg),$(pkg),$(value _po_rule))$(at.nl)))
 
diff --git a/build-aux/Makefile.once.head/00-libretools.mk b/build-aux/Makefile.once.head/00-libretools.mk
index 1f2957d2..38813112 100644
--- a/build-aux/Makefile.once.head/00-libretools.mk
+++ b/build-aux/Makefile.once.head/00-libretools.mk
@@ -92,10 +92,6 @@ libretools.edit = sed \
 	-e 's|m4_include(lib/\(.*\))|. "$$(librelib \1)"|' \
 	$(foreach v,$(patsubst $(var.)%,%,$(filter $(var.)%,$^)), -e 's|@$(v)@|$($(v))|g' )
 
-# Usage <INPUT $(libretools.pofmt) >OUTPUT
-# Normalize a .po(t) file
-libretools.pofmt = msguniq -Fi --to-code=UTF-8
-
 # Auto-detect ########################################################
 
 # It's easy to think of these as "each" variables, but because they
diff --git a/src/lib/librexgettext b/src/lib/librexgettext
index a4f2eb99..8b008764 100755
--- a/src/lib/librexgettext
+++ b/src/lib/librexgettext
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ main() {
 		xgettext-sh "${simple[@]}" -- "${files[@]}"
 		xgettext-sh "${prose[@]}" -- "${files[@]}" | whitespace-collapse
 		xgettext-flag -- "${files[@]}"
-	} | sed '/^\#, sh-format/d' | msguniq -Fi --to-code=UTF-8
+	} | sed '/^\#, sh-format/d'
 }
 
 main "$@"