diff --git a/rednotebook/util/markup.py b/rednotebook/util/markup.py
index d44f0524..cb66cd96 100644
--- a/rednotebook/util/markup.py
+++ b/rednotebook/util/markup.py
@@ -41,8 +41,6 @@
ESCAPE_COLOR = r"XBEGINCOLORX\1XSEPARATORX\2XENDCOLORX"
COLOR_ESCAPED = r"XBEGINCOLORX(.*?)XSEPARATORX(.*?)XENDCOLORX"
-CHARSET_UTF8 = ''
-
CSS = """\