1 files changed, 1 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/lib/rdoc/ruby_lex.rb b/lib/rdoc/ruby_lex.rb
index 25788b6a29..1fc3c12c4a 100644
--- a/lib/rdoc/ruby_lex.rb
+++ b/lib/rdoc/ruby_lex.rb
@@ -853,11 +853,7 @@ class RDoc::RubyLex
     end
   end
 
-  IDENT_RE = if defined? Encoding then
-               eval '/[\w\u{0080}-\u{FFFFF}]/u' # 1.8 can't parse \u{}
-             else
-               /[\w\x80-\xFF]/
-             end
+  IDENT_RE = eval '/[\w\u{0080}-\u{FFFFF}]/u'
 
   def identify_identifier
     token = ""