diff --git a/crates/wchar/src/lib.rs b/crates/wchar/src/lib.rs
index 42ffe24aa..23471efb1 100644
--- a/crates/wchar/src/lib.rs
+++ b/crates/wchar/src/lib.rs
@@ -8,22 +8,12 @@
 
 use fish_common::{ENCODE_DIRECT_BASE, ENCODE_DIRECT_END, subslice_position};
 use std::{iter, slice};
-pub use widestring::{Utf32Str as wstr, Utf32String as WString, utfstr::CharsUtf32};
+pub use widestring::{Utf32Str as wstr, Utf32String as WString, utf32str as L, utfstr::CharsUtf32};
 
 pub mod prelude {
     pub use crate::{IntoCharIter, L, ToWString, WExt, WString, wstr};
 }
 
-/// Creates a wstr string slice, like the "L" prefix of C++.
-/// The result is of type wstr.
-/// It is NOT nul-terminated.
-#[macro_export]
-macro_rules! L {
-    ($string:expr) => {
-        widestring::utf32str!($string)
-    };
-}
-
 /// Encode a literal byte in a UTF-32 character. This is required for e.g. the echo builtin, whose
 /// escape sequences can be used to construct raw byte sequences which are then interpreted as e.g.
 /// UTF-8 by the terminal. If we were to interpret each of those bytes as a codepoint and encode it