diff --git a/src/widgets/settingspages/AboutPage.cpp b/src/widgets/settingspages/AboutPage.cpp
index 5966850f0..68f4d3e97 100644
--- a/src/widgets/settingspages/AboutPage.cpp
+++ b/src/widgets/settingspages/AboutPage.cpp
@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ AboutPage::AboutPage()
             contributorsFile.open(QFile::ReadOnly);
 
             QTextStream stream(&contributorsFile);
-            stream.setCodec("UTF-8");
+            // stream.setCodec("UTF-8");
 
             QString line;