diff --git a/awesome.desktop b/awesome.desktop
index 8a7f354cb..1ed175fd1 100644
--- a/awesome.desktop
+++ b/awesome.desktop
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 [Desktop Entry]
-Encoding=UTF-8
 Name=awesome
 Comment=Highly configurable framework window manager
 TryExec=awesome