diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index aa16ae1..8cdc067 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -14,9 +14,7 @@ jobs:
       - run: pip3 install -r requirements-test.txt
       - run:
           command: |
-            if [[ $(python3 -c "import sys; print(sys.stdin.encoding)" |grep None) ]]; then
-              export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8
-            fi
+            export PYTHONIOENCODING=utf-8
             make coverage
       - codecov/upload