diff --git a/docs/changes.txt b/docs/changes.txt
index 0092794978..1c4d35f355 100644
--- a/docs/changes.txt
+++ b/docs/changes.txt
@@ -545,7 +545,6 @@ All:
 - Cleaned up wxURI and made it Unicode-friendly.
 - Add support for wxExecute(wxEXEC_ASYNC) in wxBase (Lukasz Michalski).
 - Added wxXLocale class and xlocale-like functions using it.
-- Allow loading message catalogs from wxFileSystem (Axel Gembe).
 - Added wxMessageQueue class for inter-thread communications
 - Use UTF-8 for Unicode data in wxIPC classes (Anders Larsen)
 - Added support for user-defined types to wxConfig (Marcin Wojdyr).
diff --git a/src/common/intl.cpp b/src/common/intl.cpp
index 004aadbe80..0638da4e95 100644
--- a/src/common/intl.cpp
+++ b/src/common/intl.cpp
@@ -70,7 +70,6 @@
 #include "wx/apptrait.h"
 #include "wx/stdpaths.h"
 #include "wx/hashset.h"
-#include "wx/filesys.h"
 
 #if defined(__WXOSX__)
     #include "wx/osx/core/cfref.h"
@@ -1190,12 +1189,7 @@ bool wxMsgCatalogFile::Load(const wxString& szDirPrefix, const wxString& szName,
     fn.SetExt(wxS("mo"));
 
     wxString strFullName;
-#if wxUSE_FILESYSTEM
-    wxFileSystem fileSys;
-    if ( !fileSys.FindFileInPath(&strFullName, searchPath, fn.GetFullPath()) )
-#else // !wxUSE_FILESYSTEM
     if ( !wxFindFileInPath(&strFullName, searchPath, fn.GetFullPath()) )
-#endif // wxUSE_FILESYSTEM/!wxUSE_FILESYSTEM
     {
         wxLogVerbose(_("catalog file for domain '%s' not found."), szName);
         wxLogTrace(TRACE_I18N, wxS("Catalog \"%s.mo\" not found"), szName);
@@ -1206,22 +1200,6 @@ bool wxMsgCatalogFile::Load(const wxString& szDirPrefix, const wxString& szName,
     wxLogVerbose(_("using catalog '%s' from '%s'."), szName, strFullName.c_str());
     wxLogTrace(TRACE_I18N, wxS("Using catalog \"%s\"."), strFullName.c_str());
 
-#if wxUSE_FILESYSTEM
-    wxFSFile * const fileMsg = fileSys.OpenFile(strFullName);
-    if ( !fileMsg )
-        return false;
-
-    wxInputStream *fileStream = fileMsg->GetStream();
-    m_data.SetDataLen(0);
-
-    static const size_t chunkSize = 4096;
-    while ( !fileStream->Eof() ) {
-        fileStream->Read(m_data.GetAppendBuf(chunkSize), chunkSize);
-        m_data.UngetAppendBuf(fileStream->LastRead());
-    }
-
-    delete fileMsg;
-#else // !wxUSE_FILESYSTEM
     wxFile fileMsg(strFullName);
     if ( !fileMsg.IsOpened() )
         return false;
@@ -1239,7 +1217,6 @@ bool wxMsgCatalogFile::Load(const wxString& szDirPrefix, const wxString& szName,
         return false;
 
     m_data.UngetWriteBuf(nSize);
-#endif // wxUSE_FILESYSTEM/!wxUSE_FILESYSTEM
 
 
     // examine header