diff --git a/CHANGELOG.rst b/CHANGELOG.rst
index 7d38d2242..0e7dccc72 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.rst
+++ b/CHANGELOG.rst
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ Deprecations and removed features
 ---------------------------------
 
 - Fish now assumes UTF-8 everywhere, regardless of locale settings. Input bytes which are not valid UTF-8 should still be round-tripped correctly.
+- On systems where no multi-byte locale is available, fish will no longer fall back to using ASCII replacements for Unicode symbols like ``…``.
 
 Interactive improvements
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diff --git a/share/tools/web_config/sample_prompts/disco.fish b/share/tools/web_config/sample_prompts/disco.fish
index 8da59d83f..09cea26d2 100644
--- a/share/tools/web_config/sample_prompts/disco.fish
+++ b/share/tools/web_config/sample_prompts/disco.fish
@@ -8,8 +8,6 @@ function fish_prompt
     set -l usercolor (set_color $fish_color_user)
 
     set -l delim \U25BA
-    # If we don't have unicode use a simpler delimiter
-    string match -qi "*.utf-8" -- $LANG $LC_CTYPE $LC_ALL; or set delim ">"
 
     fish_is_root_user; and set delim "#"
 
@@ -63,9 +61,7 @@ function fish_right_prompt
     set -g __fish_git_prompt_showupstream informative
     set -g __fish_git_prompt_showcolorhints 1
     set -g __fish_git_prompt_use_informative_chars 1
-    # Unfortunately this only works if we have a sensible locale
-    string match -qi "*.utf-8" -- $LANG $LC_CTYPE $LC_ALL
-    and set -g __fish_git_prompt_char_dirtystate \U1F4a9
+    set -g __fish_git_prompt_char_dirtystate \U1F4a9
     set -g __fish_git_prompt_char_untrackedfiles "?"
 
     # The git prompt's default format is ' (%s)'.