diff --git a/bin/doom b/bin/doom
index deafdf662..f9d1841e6 100755
--- a/bin/doom
+++ b/bin/doom
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env sh
 :; # -*- mode: emacs-lisp; lexical-binding: t -*-
-:; export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
 :; case "$EMACS" in *term*) EMACS=emacs ;; *) EMACS="${EMACS:-emacs}" ;; esac
 :; emacs="$EMACS ${DEBUG:+--debug-init} -q --no-site-file --batch"
 :; tmpdir=`$emacs --eval '(princ (temporary-file-directory))' 2>/dev/null`
diff --git a/bin/doomscript b/bin/doomscript
index fdb01edc3..dd0a22285 100755
--- a/bin/doomscript
+++ b/bin/doomscript
@@ -20,9 +20,6 @@ if [ "$#" -eq 0 ]; then
     exit 1
 fi
 
-# Prevent garbled non-English output from child processes
-export LC_ALL=C.UTF-8
-
 case "$EMACS" in
     *term*) EMACS=emacs ;;   # in {ansi-,v}term
     *) EMACS="${EMACS:-emacs}" ;;