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diff --git a/numpy/core/defchararray.py b/numpy/core/defchararray.py
index 942a698a9..b22d6b85e 100644
--- a/numpy/core/defchararray.py
+++ b/numpy/core/defchararray.py
@@ -2679,25 +2679,6 @@ def array(obj, itemsize=None, copy=True, unicode=None, order=None):
itemsize = len(obj)
shape = len(obj) // itemsize
- if unicode:
- if sys.maxunicode == 0xffff:
- # On a narrow Python build, the buffer for Unicode
- # strings is UCS2, which doesn't match the buffer for
- # NumPy Unicode types, which is ALWAYS UCS4.
- # Therefore, we need to convert the buffer. On Python
- # 2.6 and later, we can use the utf_32 codec. Earlier
- # versions don't have that codec, so we convert to a
- # numerical array that matches the input buffer, and
- # then use NumPy to convert it to UCS4. All of this
- # should happen in native endianness.
- obj = obj.encode('utf_32')
- else:
- obj = str(obj)
- else:
- # Let the default Unicode -> string encoding (if any) take
- # precedence.
- obj = bytes(obj)
-
return chararray(shape, itemsize=itemsize, unicode=unicode,
buffer=obj, order=order)