diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 3ae4c9b7e..2ed6fbc07 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2005-08-31  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz@bunkus.org>
+
+	* mkvinfo: bug fix: The GUI couldn't open files with non-ASCII
+	chars in the file name.
+
 2005-08-30  Moritz Bunkus  <moritz@bunkus.org>
 
 	* mkvmerge: bug fix: Display dimensions were reported for all
diff --git a/src/info/gui.cpp b/src/info/gui.cpp
index 3429e3f5b..4f6b52df0 100644
--- a/src/info/gui.cpp
+++ b/src/info/gui.cpp
@@ -149,11 +149,8 @@ mi_frame::mi_frame(const wxString &title,
 void
 mi_frame::open_file(wxString file_name) {
   string cfile_name;
-#if WXUNICODE
-  cfile_name = from_utf8(cc_local_utf8, wxMB(file_name));
-#else
+
   cfile_name = wxMB(file_name);
-#endif
   tree->DeleteAllItems();
   item_ids[0] = tree->AddRoot(file_name);
   last_percent = -1;