diff --git a/build2.spec b/build2.spec
index 544b8c6..09d6061 100644
--- a/build2.spec
+++ b/build2.spec
@@ -221,14 +221,6 @@ This package contains the %{name} RPM macros.
 %setup -q -c -n %{name}-toolchain-%{version} -a 1 -a 2 -a 3 -a 4 -a 100 -a 101
 %endif
 mv libbutl-%{version} %{name}-%{version}
-# fix PostScript documentation character encoding
-for f in $(find -name "*.ps"); do
-  encoding=$(file -bi "${f}" | cut -f 2 -d';' | cut -f 2 -d'=')
-  if [ "${encoding}" != "utf-8" ]; then
-    iconv -f "${encoding}" -t utf-8 "${f}" -o "${f}.utf8"
-    mv "${f}.utf8" "${f}"
-  fi
-done
 
 %build
 # Define basic installation configuration. Note that this does not include: