diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 810816e8fc..7346ac68d8 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -5600,7 +5600,6 @@ tools/chmmaker/unit1.lfm svneol=native#text/plain
 tools/chmmaker/unit1.lrs svneol=native#text/pascal
 tools/chmmaker/unit1.pas svneol=native#text/plain
 tools/compile_all.sh svneol=native#text/plain
-tools/convert_po_file_to_utf-8.sh svneol=native#text/plain
 tools/copy_po_files_to_lazarus_sources.sh -text svneol=native#application/x-sh
 tools/debugserver/README.txt svneol=native#text/plain
 tools/debugserver/debugserver.ico -text
diff --git a/tools/convert_po_file_to_utf-8.sh b/tools/convert_po_file_to_utf-8.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 56f70b8b80..0000000000
--- a/tools/convert_po_file_to_utf-8.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,23 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-#
-# Author: Mattias Gaertner
-#
-# converts a .po files to UTF-8
-
-set -e
-#set -x
-
-POFile=$1
-if [ -f "$POFile" ]; then
-  OldCharSet=$(cat $POFile | egrep '^".* charset=' | sed -e 's/.*charset=\(.*\)"/\1/' -e 's/\\n//')
-  echo $OldCharSet
-  if [ -n "$OldCharSet"="UTF-8" ]; then
-    iconv --from-code=$OldCharSet --to-code=UTF-8 $POFile > $POFile.tmp
-    cat $POFile.tmp | sed -e 's/\(^".* charset\)='$OldCharSet'/\1=UTF-8/' > $POFile
-    rm $POFile.tmp
-  fi
-else
-  echo Usage: $0 po-file
-  exit -1
-fi
-