diff --git a/src/mac/carbon/app.cpp b/src/mac/carbon/app.cpp
index 77be629cb7..b128991ff0 100644
--- a/src/mac/carbon/app.cpp
+++ b/src/mac/carbon/app.cpp
@@ -1670,8 +1670,6 @@ void wxApp::MacCreateKeyEvent( wxKeyEvent& event, wxWindow* focus , long keymess
     event.m_keyCode = keyval ;
 #if wxUSE_UNICODE
     event.m_uniChar = uniChar ;
-    if ( event.GetEventType() == wxEVT_CHAR )
-        event.m_keyCode = uniChar ;
 #endif
 
     event.m_rawCode = keymessage;