diff --git a/fakeroot.changes b/fakeroot.changes
index 5505ed5..b99656c 100644
--- a/fakeroot.changes
+++ b/fakeroot.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep  1 11:20:13 UTC 2022 - Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
+
+- The manual pages are already in UTF-8 format, so don't convert
+  them from latin1 to UTF-8, this will break the encoding
+  [bsc#1203020]
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Jul  7 19:23:17 UTC 2022 - Matthias Eliasson <elimat@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/fakeroot.spec b/fakeroot.spec
index 8857b8e..33ba8f8 100644
--- a/fakeroot.spec
+++ b/fakeroot.spec
@@ -61,11 +61,6 @@ pushd doc
 po4a -k 0 --rm-backups --variable "srcdir=../doc/" po4a/po4a.cfg
 popd
 
-for file in ./doc/{*.1,*/*.1}; do
-  iconv -f latin1 -t utf8 < $file > $file.new && \
-  mv -f $file.new $file
-done
-
 for type in sysv tcp; do
   mkdir obj-$type
   cd obj-$type