diff --git a/extras/contrib/src/Distributions/win32.mak b/extras/contrib/src/Distributions/win32.mak
index 08eba4802e84add648b372318e2e97c3988fbadd..0495905d7caab9de099e01c3c8b0b4fba38dacef 100644
--- a/extras/contrib/src/Distributions/win32.mak
+++ b/extras/contrib/src/Distributions/win32.mak
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ all: .iconv .intl .freetype .fribidi .zlib \
         .live .goom2k4 .caca .mod .x264  .xml .twolame \
         .png .gpg-error .gcrypt .opencdk .gnutls .mpcdec \
         .dvdnav .dvbpsi .wxwidgets .qt4_win32 .dirac .SDL_image \
-        .dx_headers .dshow_headers .gecko-win32 .unicows .dca \
+        .dx_headers .dshow_headers .gecko-win32 .dca \
         .lua .tag .fontconfig .portaudio \
         .aclocal
 #       .daap .cddb .cdio .vcdimager
diff --git a/extras/contrib/src/Makefile b/extras/contrib/src/Makefile
index 18b6f4e760d95b24f4ee747bf10def001ef00c4d..166292945ea083070e9ef856ae327682b42a649e 100644
--- a/extras/contrib/src/Makefile
+++ b/extras/contrib/src/Makefile
@@ -2311,25 +2311,6 @@ DISTCLEAN_PKG += yasm-$(YASM_VERSION).tar.bz2
 
 CLEAN_FILE += .aclocal
 
-# ***************************************************************************
-# UNICOWS (Unicode support for WINME/98/95)
-# ***************************************************************************
-
-libunicows-$(UNICOWS_VERSION).tar.gz:
-	$(WGET) $(UNICOWS_URL)
-	mv libunicows-$(UNICOWS_VERSION)-src.tar.gz $@ || true
-
-libunicows: libunicows-$(UNICOWS_VERSION).tar.gz
-	$(EXTRACT_GZ)
-
-.unicows: libunicows
-	(cd $</src; make -f makefile.mingw32 PATHSEP='/' $(HOSTCC) && cp -f ../lib/mingw32/libunicows.a $(PREFIX)/lib)
-	touch $@
-
-CLEAN_FILE += .unicows
-CLEAN_PKG += libunicows
-DISTCLEAN_PKG += libunicows-$(UNICOWS_VERSION).tar.gz
-
 # ***************************************************************************
 # TagLib read and editing of tags of popular audio formats
 # ***************************************************************************
diff --git a/extras/contrib/src/packages.mak b/extras/contrib/src/packages.mak
index 24872eeff25bbddffdba4ee9cabd707ec40e816f..76aed9d6619e93b15156f591db22dda373bf7398 100644
--- a/extras/contrib/src/packages.mak
+++ b/extras/contrib/src/packages.mak
@@ -208,8 +208,6 @@ EXPAT_VERSION=2.0.0
 EXPAT_URL=$(SF)/expat/expat-$(EXPAT_VERSION).tar.gz
 PTHREADS_VERSION=2-8-0
 PTHREADS_URL=ftp://sources.redhat.com/pub/pthreads-win32/pthreads-w32-$(PTHREADS_VERSION)-release.tar.gz
-UNICOWS_VERSION=1.1.1
-UNICOWS_URL=$(SF)/libunicows/libunicows-$(UNICOWS_VERSION)-src.tar.gz
 ZVBI_VERSION=0.2.30
 ZVBI_URL=$(SF)/zapping/zvbi-$(ZVBI_VERSION).tar.bz2
 TAGLIB_VERSION=1.5