diff --git a/include/wx/htmllbox.h b/include/wx/htmllbox.h
index 6557e4e036..a7ee460e6f 100644
--- a/include/wx/htmllbox.h
+++ b/include/wx/htmllbox.h
@@ -74,10 +74,6 @@ public:
     virtual void RefreshAll();
     virtual void SetItemCount(size_t count);
 
-    // provide a way to set the default encoding (non-Unicode only)
-    void SetEncoding(wxFontEncoding encoding) { m_fontEncoding = encoding; }
-    wxFontEncoding GetEncoding() { return m_fontEncoding; }
-
 #if wxUSE_FILESYSTEM
     // retrieve the file system used by the wxHtmlWinParser: if you use
     // relative paths in your HTML, you should use its ChangePathTo() method
@@ -171,9 +167,6 @@ private:
     // HTML parser we use
     wxHtmlWinParser *m_htmlParser;
 
-    // font encoding (used in non-Unicode mode only)
-    wxFontEncoding  m_fontEncoding;
-
 #if wxUSE_FILESYSTEM
     // file system used by m_htmlParser
     wxFileSystem m_filesystem;
diff --git a/src/generic/htmllbox.cpp b/src/generic/htmllbox.cpp
index c4256b2dea..6173b2ef2d 100644
--- a/src/generic/htmllbox.cpp
+++ b/src/generic/htmllbox.cpp
@@ -225,7 +225,6 @@ void wxHtmlListBox::Init()
     m_htmlParser = NULL;
     m_htmlRendStyle = new wxHtmlListBoxStyle(*this);
     m_cache = new wxHtmlListBoxCache;
-    m_fontEncoding = wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1;
 }
 
 bool wxHtmlListBox::Create(wxWindow *parent,
@@ -295,7 +294,8 @@ void wxHtmlListBox::CacheItem(size_t n) const
             m_htmlParser->SetDC(new wxClientDC(self));
             m_htmlParser->SetFS(&self->m_filesystem);
 #if !wxUSE_UNICODE
-            m_htmlParser->SetInputEncoding(m_fontEncoding);
+            if (GetFont().Ok())
+                m_htmlParser->SetInputEncoding(GetFont().GetEncoding());
 #endif
             // use system's default GUI font by default:
             m_htmlParser->SetStandardFonts();