diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index fe450f14c6..ae832740e1 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -59,13 +59,6 @@ if not meson.is_subproject() and cc.get_id() == 'msvc'
   endif
 endif
 
-# 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
-
 # Ordered list of subprojects (dict has no ordering guarantees)
 subprojects = [
   ['gstreamer', {'build-hotdoc': true}],