diff --git a/nextcloud/lib/private/legacy/OC_Util.php b/nextcloud/lib/private/legacy/OC_Util.php

index edee23995f1..e62740978bb 100644

--- a/nextcloud/lib/private/legacy/OC_Util.php

+++ b/nextcloud/lib/private/legacy/OC_Util.php

@@ -1032,13 +1032,7 @@ class OC_Util {

 	 * @return bool

 	 */

 	private static function isNonUTF8Locale() {

-		if (function_exists('escapeshellcmd')) {

-			return '' === escapeshellcmd('§');

-		} elseif (function_exists('escapeshellarg')) {

-			return '\'\'' === escapeshellarg('§');

-		} else {

-			return 0 === preg_match('/utf-?8/i', setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 0));

-		}

+		return 0 === preg_match('/utf-?8/i', setlocale(LC_CTYPE, 0));

 	}

 	/**