diff --git a/libraries/charset_conversion.lib.php b/libraries/charset_conversion.lib.php
index 5166a3658..15f4a11e4 100644
--- a/libraries/charset_conversion.lib.php
+++ b/libraries/charset_conversion.lib.php
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ function PMA_convert_file($src_charset, $dest_charset, $file) {
     switch ($GLOBALS['PMA_recoding_engine']) {
         case PMA_CHARSET_RECODE:
         case PMA_CHARSET_ICONV:
-        case PMA_CHARSET_LIBICONV:
             $tmpfname = tempnam('', 'PMA_convert_file');
             $fin      = fopen($file, 'r');
             $fout     = fopen($tmpfname, 'w');