diff --git a/lang/german-iso-8859-1.inc.php b/lang/german-iso-8859-1.inc.php
index 47712acc49..814b976169 100644
--- a/lang/german-iso-8859-1.inc.php
+++ b/lang/german-iso-8859-1.inc.php
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
  */
 
 $charset = 'iso-8859-1';
-$allow_recoding = TRUE;
 $text_dir = 'ltr';
 $number_thousands_separator = '.';
 $number_decimal_separator = ',';
diff --git a/lang/german-iso-8859-15.inc.php b/lang/german-iso-8859-15.inc.php
index 66497acc3d..04f8f30431 100644
--- a/lang/german-iso-8859-15.inc.php
+++ b/lang/german-iso-8859-15.inc.php
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
  */
 
 $charset = 'iso-8859-15';
-$allow_recoding = TRUE;
 $text_dir = 'ltr';
 $number_thousands_separator = '.';
 $number_decimal_separator = ',';