diff --git a/Documentation/database-setup.txt b/Documentation/database-setup.txt
index 2016ac3..b41911a 100644
--- a/Documentation/database-setup.txt
+++ b/Documentation/database-setup.txt
@@ -60,14 +60,6 @@
   FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
 ----
 
-If you are using the MyISAM engine, you need to set latin1 as charset:
-
-----
-  mysql
-
-  ALTER DATABASE reviewdb charset=latin1;
-----
-
 Visit MySQL's link:http://dev.mysql.com/doc/[documentation] for further
 information regarding using MySQL.