diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index ec582e239f..c6e6b2adc0 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -57,13 +57,11 @@ if not meson.is_subproject() and cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
       endif
     endif
   endif
+endif
 
-  # Change some warning which belong to level 3 (production quality) or
-  # 4 (informational) to level 1 (severe)
-  add_global_arguments (
-      '/w14062', # enumerator 'identifier' in switch of enum 'enumeration' is not handled
-      '/w14101', # 'identifier' : unreferenced local variable
-      '/w14189', # 'identifier' : local variable is initialized but not referenced
+# Ensure that MSVC interprets all source code as UTF-8
+if cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
+  add_global_arguments(
       cc.get_supported_arguments(['/utf-8']), # set the input encoding to utf-8
       language: ['c', 'cpp'])
 endif