diff --git a/src/terminal/event.h b/src/terminal/event.h
index 152b4567..8599b55c 100644
--- a/src/terminal/event.h
+++ b/src/terminal/event.h
@@ -170,17 +170,7 @@ void in_term(struct terminal *);
 #define check_kbd_modifier(event, mod)	(kbd_modifier_is(&(event)->info.keyboard, (mod)))
 
 #define check_kbd_textinput_key(event)	(get_kbd_key(event) >= ' ' && check_kbd_modifier(event, KBD_MOD_NONE))
-#ifdef CONFIG_UTF_8
-/* We must currently limit hotkeys of labels to ASCII, because
- * get_kbd_key(event) is in UCS-4 and various event handlers pass it
- * to toupper() if check_kbd_label_key() returns true.
- * TO DO: Change the event handlers to use unicode_fold_label_case()
- * instead.  The code that extracts the hotkey from the label string
- * will also have to be changed.  */
-#define check_kbd_label_key(event)	(get_kbd_key(event) > ' ' && get_kbd_key(event) <= 0x7F && (check_kbd_modifier(event, KBD_MOD_NONE) || check_kbd_modifier(event, KBD_MOD_ALT)))
-#else  /* !CONFIG_UTF_8 */
 #define check_kbd_label_key(event)	(get_kbd_key(event) > ' ' && (check_kbd_modifier(event, KBD_MOD_NONE) || check_kbd_modifier(event, KBD_MOD_ALT)))
-#endif /* !CONFIG_UTF_8 */
 
 
 /* For mouse events handling */