2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/admin/unidata/Makefile.in b/admin/unidata/Makefile.in
index 91a3640fff7..e7b0fbe4bf9 100644
--- a/admin/unidata/Makefile.in
+++ b/admin/unidata/Makefile.in
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@
 
 EMACS = ../../src/emacs
 DSTDIR = ../../lisp/international
-RUNEMACS = ${EMACS} -Q --multibyte -batch
+RUNEMACS = ${EMACS} -Q -batch
 
 all: ${DSTDIR}/charprop.el ../../src/biditype.h ../../src/bidimirror.h
 
diff --git a/admin/unidata/makefile.w32-in b/admin/unidata/makefile.w32-in
index 85dfb135df8..58cea29db8b 100644
--- a/admin/unidata/makefile.w32-in
+++ b/admin/unidata/makefile.w32-in
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ lisp = $(CURDIR)/../../lisp
 # lisp/subdirs.el is not generated yet when the commands below run.
 EMACSLOADPATH = $(lisp);$(lisp)/international;$(lisp)/emacs-lisp
 # Quote EMACS so it could be a file name with embedded whitespace
-RUNEMACS = "$(EMACS)" -Q --multibyte -batch
+RUNEMACS = "$(EMACS)" -Q -batch
 
 all: $(DSTDIR)/charprop.el ../../src/biditype.h ../../src/bidimirror.h