diff --git a/src/libsystemd/meson.build b/src/libsystemd/meson.build
index 055fa11ede..2b288ccb28 100644
--- a/src/libsystemd/meson.build
+++ b/src/libsystemd/meson.build
@@ -155,7 +155,6 @@ libsystemd_sources = files(
         'sd-path/sd-path.c',
         'sd-resolve/resolve-private.h',
         'sd-resolve/sd-resolve.c',
-        'sd-utf8/sd-utf8.c',
 ) + sd_journal_sources + id128_sources + sd_daemon_sources + sd_event_sources + sd_login_sources
 
 
diff --git a/src/libsystemd/sd-utf8/sd-utf8.c b/src/libsystemd/sd-utf8/sd-utf8.c
deleted file mode 100644
index 82fa125ade..0000000000
--- a/src/libsystemd/sd-utf8/sd-utf8.c
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-2.1-or-later */
-
-#include "sd-utf8.h"
-
-#include "utf8.h"
-#include "util.h"
-
-_public_ const char *sd_utf8_is_valid(const char *s) {
-        assert_return(s, NULL);
-
-        return utf8_is_valid(s);
-}
-
-_public_ const char *sd_ascii_is_valid(const char *s) {
-        assert_return(s, NULL);
-
-        return ascii_is_valid(s);
-}
diff --git a/src/systemd/meson.build b/src/systemd/meson.build
index df8c74ebdd..6048c13859 100644
--- a/src/systemd/meson.build
+++ b/src/systemd/meson.build
@@ -36,7 +36,6 @@ _not_installed_headers = [
         'sd-network.h',
         'sd-radv.h',
         'sd-resolve.h',
-        'sd-utf8.h',
 ]
 
 install_headers(