diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 06fbe9d..142c9fc 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -10,9 +10,6 @@
 Core and Builtins
 -----------------
 
-- Issue #9992: On Mac OS X, decode command line arguments from utf-8 instead of
-  the locale encoding.
-
 - Issue #9992: Remove PYTHONFSENCODING environment variable.
 
 Library
diff --git a/Modules/python.c b/Modules/python.c
index 488aa79..9a71cd0 100644
--- a/Modules/python.c
+++ b/Modules/python.c
@@ -41,19 +41,10 @@
     oldloc = strdup(setlocale(LC_ALL, NULL));
     setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
     for (i = 0; i < argc; i++) {
-#ifdef __APPLE__
-        /* Use utf-8 on Mac OS X */
-        PyObject *unicode = PyUnicode_FromString(argv[i]);
-        if (!unicode)
-            return 1;
-        argv_copy[i] = PyUnicode_AsWideCharString(unicode, NULL);
-        Py_DECREF(unicode);
-#else
         argv_copy[i] = _Py_char2wchar(argv[i]);
-#endif
-        argv_copy2[i] = argv_copy[i];
         if (!argv_copy[i])
             return 1;
+        argv_copy2[i] = argv_copy[i];
     }
     setlocale(LC_ALL, oldloc);
     free(oldloc);