diff --git a/yarp/templates/template.rb b/yarp/templates/template.rb
index eea3938e9c..680ab82620 100755
--- a/yarp/templates/template.rb
+++ b/yarp/templates/template.rb
@@ -340,9 +340,7 @@ if __FILE__ == $0
   if ARGV.empty?
     YARP::TEMPLATES.each { |filepath| YARP.template(filepath) }
   else # ruby/ruby
-    if ENV["LANG"] == "C"
-      Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
-    end
+    Encoding.default_external = Encoding::UTF_8
     name, write_to = ARGV
     YARP.template(name, write_to: write_to)
   end