diff --git a/src/winio.c b/src/winio.c
index 9d747b49ea232b985b02ade8da877571d61c9943..d06a51af511f89de796bc9b7446b7177231fa0af 100644
--- a/src/winio.c
+++ b/src/winio.c
@@ -1852,7 +1852,7 @@ char *display_string(const char *buf, size_t start_col, size_t span,
 	    }
 	}
 #ifdef ENABLE_UTF8
-	else if (using_utf8() && mbwidth(buf) == 2) {
+	else if (mbwidth(buf) == 2) {
 	    if (column >= start_col) {
 		converted[index++] = ' ';
 		start_col++;