diff --git a/src/stc/stc.cpp b/src/stc/stc.cpp
index 64c3c3fd45..1dc93c27de 100644
--- a/src/stc/stc.cpp
+++ b/src/stc/stc.cpp
@@ -4433,7 +4433,7 @@ wxStyledTextCtrl::DoLoadFile(const wxString& filename, int WXUNUSED(fileType))
     if ( file.IsOpened() )
     {
         wxString text;
-        if ( file.ReadAll(&text, *wxConvCurrent) )
+        if ( file.ReadAll(&text, wxConvAuto()) )
         {
             // Detect the EOL: we use just the first line because there is not
             // much we can do if the file uses inconsistent EOLs anyhow, we'd
diff --git a/src/stc/stc.cpp.in b/src/stc/stc.cpp.in
index f407276bbf..a635b561df 100644
--- a/src/stc/stc.cpp.in
+++ b/src/stc/stc.cpp.in
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ wxStyledTextCtrl::DoLoadFile(const wxString& filename, int WXUNUSED(fileType))
     if ( file.IsOpened() )
     {
         wxString text;
-        if ( file.ReadAll(&text, *wxConvCurrent) )
+        if ( file.ReadAll(&text, wxConvAuto()) )
         {
             // Detect the EOL: we use just the first line because there is not
             // much we can do if the file uses inconsistent EOLs anyhow, we'd