diff --git a/libretro-common/include/encodings/utf.h b/libretro-common/include/encodings/utf.h
index a3c630c783..d6528b0c5b 100644
--- a/libretro-common/include/encodings/utf.h
+++ b/libretro-common/include/encodings/utf.h
@@ -28,10 +28,6 @@
 
 #include <boolean.h>
 
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-extern "C" {
-#endif
-
 size_t utf8_conv_utf32(uint32_t *out, size_t out_chars,
       const char *in, size_t in_size);
 
@@ -44,8 +40,4 @@ size_t utf8cpy(char *d, size_t d_len, const char *s, size_t chars);
 
 const char *utf8skip(const char *str, size_t chars);
 
-#ifdef __cplusplus
-}
-#endif
-
 #endif