diff --git a/build b/build
index e4456accc8..defdc787f2 100755
--- a/build
+++ b/build
@@ -9,11 +9,6 @@ if [ "$1" == "32" ]; then
     opt="--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu"
 fi
 
-# Makes Linux use 16-bit wide chars instead of 32-bit
-CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fshort-wchar"
-CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fshort-wchar"
-export CCFLAGS CXXFLAGS
-
 # Jonathan C dev hack: refer to LNKDOS16 in /usr/src/doslib
 doslib=""
 if [ -d /usr/src/doslib ]; then doslib="/usr/src/doslib"; fi
diff --git a/build-debug b/build-debug
index 279aab8ca4..f8545bc8eb 100755
--- a/build-debug
+++ b/build-debug
@@ -9,11 +9,6 @@ if [ "$1" == "32" ]; then
     opt="--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu"
 fi
 
-# Makes Linux use 16-bit wide chars instead of 32-bit
-CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fshort-wchar"
-CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fshort-wchar"
-export CCFLAGS CXXFLAGS
-
 # Jonathan C dev hack: refer to LNKDOS16 in /usr/src/doslib
 doslib=
 if [ -d /usr/src/doslib ]; then doslib="/usr/src/doslib"; fi
diff --git a/build-debug-g3 b/build-debug-g3
index 48cfc05aec..c0ff1b7f38 100755
--- a/build-debug-g3
+++ b/build-debug-g3
@@ -8,11 +8,6 @@ if [ "${1}" == "32" ]; then
     shift
 fi
 
-# Makes Linux use 16-bit wide chars instead of 32-bit
-CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fshort-wchar"
-CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fshort-wchar"
-export CCFLAGS CXXFLAGS
-
 # I'm sick and tired of all the churn the three versions of autoconf
 # are causing in this repo. Stop committing the configure scripts
 # and just autoregen.
diff --git a/build-debug-g3-sdl2 b/build-debug-g3-sdl2
index a44a099541..8f4458d592 100755
--- a/build-debug-g3-sdl2
+++ b/build-debug-g3-sdl2
@@ -8,11 +8,6 @@ if [ "${1}" == "32" ]; then
     shift
 fi
 
-# Makes Linux use 16-bit wide chars instead of 32-bit
-CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fshort-wchar"
-CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fshort-wchar"
-export CCFLAGS CXXFLAGS
-
 # I'm sick and tired of all the churn the three versions of autoconf
 # are causing in this repo. Stop committing the configure scripts
 # and just autoregen.
diff --git a/build-debug-gcc-prof b/build-debug-gcc-prof
index ee6d69f0e5..db657024b4 100755
--- a/build-debug-gcc-prof
+++ b/build-debug-gcc-prof
@@ -9,11 +9,6 @@ if [ "$1" == "32" ]; then
     opt="--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu"
 fi
 
-# Makes Linux use 16-bit wide chars instead of 32-bit
-CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fshort-wchar"
-CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fshort-wchar"
-export CCFLAGS CXXFLAGS
-
 # I'm sick and tired of all the churn the three versions of autoconf
 # are causing in this repo. Stop committing the configure scripts
 # and just autoregen.
diff --git a/build-debug-sdl2 b/build-debug-sdl2
index 47202f1463..803ee99a97 100755
--- a/build-debug-sdl2
+++ b/build-debug-sdl2
@@ -10,11 +10,6 @@ if [ "$1" == "32" ]; then
     opt="--host=i686-pc-linux-gnu --target=i686-pc-linux-gnu"
 fi
 
-# Makes Linux use 16-bit wide chars instead of 32-bit
-CFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fshort-wchar"
-CXXFLAGS="${CXXFLAGS} -fshort-wchar"
-export CCFLAGS CXXFLAGS
-
 # Jonathan C dev hack: refer to LNKDOS16 in /usr/src/doslib
 doslib=
 if [ -d /usr/src/doslib ]; then doslib="/usr/src/doslib"; fi