diff --git a/Source/cmCurl.cxx b/Source/cmCurl.cxx
index 484ac1fc97..7dc6b7cf1b 100644
--- a/Source/cmCurl.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmCurl.cxx
@@ -238,24 +238,6 @@ std::string cmCurlFixFileURL(std::string url)
   // Explicitly encode spaces for a URL.
   cmSystemTools::ReplaceString(url, " ", "%20");
 
-#if defined(_WIN32)
-  // libcurl doesn't support file:// urls for unicode filenames on Windows.
-  // Convert string from UTF-8 to ACP if this is a file:// URL.
-  std::wstring wurl = cmsys::Encoding::ToWide(url);
-  if (!wurl.empty()) {
-    int mblen = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, wurl.c_str(), -1, nullptr, 0,
-                                    nullptr, nullptr);
-    if (mblen > 0) {
-      std::vector<char> chars(mblen);
-      mblen = WideCharToMultiByte(CP_ACP, 0, wurl.c_str(), -1, &chars[0],
-                                  mblen, nullptr, nullptr);
-      if (mblen > 0) {
-        url = &chars[0];
-      }
-    }
-  }
-#endif
-
   return url;
 }
 
diff --git a/Utilities/cmcurl/CMakeLists.txt b/Utilities/cmcurl/CMakeLists.txt
index 0b4b558716..2c6a6e6a19 100644
--- a/Utilities/cmcurl/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/Utilities/cmcurl/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ set(ENABLE_CURLDEBUG OFF CACHE INTERNAL "No curl TrackMemory features")
 set(ENABLE_DEBUG OFF CACHE INTERNAL "No curl debug features")
 set(ENABLE_IPV6 ON CACHE INTERNAL "Enable curl IPv6 support detection")
 set(ENABLE_THREADED_RESOLVER OFF CACHE INTERNAL "No curl POSIX threaded DNS lookup")
-set(ENABLE_UNICODE OFF)
+set(ENABLE_UNICODE ON)
 set(ENABLE_UNIX_SOCKETS OFF CACHE INTERNAL "No curl Unix domain sockets support")
 set(HAVE_ATOMIC 0)
 set(HAVE_BORINGSSL 0) # we do not need this info