diff --git a/lib/tools/ascii b/lib/tools/ascii
index a950e22..5f474af 100644
--- a/lib/tools/ascii
+++ b/lib/tools/ascii
@@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ ascii() {
 			use utf8;
 			use Encode;
 			use Text::Unidecode;
-			use open qw(:std :utf8);
+			binmode STDIN, ":encoding(UTF-8)";
 			$| = 1;
 			while (<>) {
-				print(unidecode(encode("utf-8", $_)));
+				print(unidecode($_));
 			}'
 	}
 }