diff --git a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/RawParseUtils.java b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/RawParseUtils.java
index 46d0bc8..2ce8690 100644
--- a/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/RawParseUtils.java
+++ b/org.eclipse.jgit/src/org/eclipse/jgit/util/RawParseUtils.java
@@ -44,14 +44,6 @@
  * Handy utility functions to parse raw object contents.
  */
 public final class RawParseUtils {
-	/**
-	 * UTF-8 charset constant.
-	 *
-	 * @since 2.2
-	 * @deprecated use {@link java.nio.charset.StandardCharsets#UTF_8} instead
-	 */
-	@Deprecated
-	public static final Charset UTF8_CHARSET = UTF_8;
 
 	private static final byte[] digits10;