diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 98c47b5e..82242a41 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2014-11-21  Daniel Stenberg  <daniel@haxx.se>
+
+	* iri.c (remote_to_utf8): Remove condition that is always false
+
 2014-11-20  Tim Ruehsen <tim.ruehsen@gmx.de>
 
 	* progress.c: Fix code for undefined USE_NLS_PROGRESS_BAR
diff --git a/src/iri.c b/src/iri.c
index d924699e..943b039c 100644
--- a/src/iri.c
+++ b/src/iri.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /* IRI related functions.
-   Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+   Copyright (C) 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 This file is part of GNU Wget.
 
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ remote_to_utf8 (struct iri *iri, const char *str, const char **new)
     {
       const char *p = str;
       for (p = str; *p; p++)
-        if (*p < 0 || *p > 127)
+        if (*p < 0)
           {
             *new = strdup (str);
             return true;