diff --git a/src/lib/egcpool.h b/src/lib/egcpool.h
index 67d7711a5..3706722cb 100644
--- a/src/lib/egcpool.h
+++ b/src/lib/egcpool.h
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 #include <string.h>
 #include <unigbrk.h>
 #include <stdbool.h>
-#include "ncwidth.h"
 #include "notcurses/notcurses.h"
 
 #ifdef __cplusplus
@@ -67,7 +66,7 @@ egcpool_grow(egcpool* pool, size_t len){
 // any NUL terminator. Neither the number of bytes nor columns is necessarily
 // equal to the number of decoded code points. Such are the ways of Unicode.
 // uc_is_grapheme_break() wants UTF-32, which is fine, because we need wchar_t
-// to use ncwidth() anyway FIXME except this doesn't work with 16-bit wchar_t!
+// to use wcwidth() anyway FIXME except this doesn't work with 16-bit wchar_t!
 static inline int
 utf8_egc_len(const char* gcluster, int* colcount){
   size_t ret = 0;
@@ -84,7 +83,7 @@ utf8_egc_len(const char* gcluster, int* colcount){
     if(prevw && uc_is_grapheme_break(prevw, wc)){
       break; // starts a new EGC, exit and do not claim
     }
-    int cols = ncwidth(wc);
+    int cols = wcwidth(wc);
     if(cols < 0){
       if(iswspace(wc)){ // newline or tab
         return ret + 1;
diff --git a/src/lib/internal.h b/src/lib/internal.h
index 1eebb58ce..6dbf460c9 100644
--- a/src/lib/internal.h
+++ b/src/lib/internal.h
@@ -397,7 +397,7 @@ mbstr_find_codepoint(const char* s, char32_t cp, int* col){
     if(towlower(cp) == towlower(w)){
       return bytes;
     }
-    *col += ncwidth(w);
+    *col += wcwidth(w);
     bytes += r;
   }
   return -1;
diff --git a/src/lib/layout.c b/src/lib/layout.c
index f35be4b33..dccd2e53d 100644
--- a/src/lib/layout.c
+++ b/src/lib/layout.c
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ puttext_line(ncplane* n, ncalign_e align, const char* text, size_t* bytes){
       return cols;
     }
     b += consumed;
-    int width = ncwidth(w);
+    int width = wcwidth(w);
     if(width < 0){
       width = 0; // FIXME
     }
diff --git a/src/lib/ncwidth.h b/src/lib/ncwidth.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 42725f8a5..000000000
--- a/src/lib/ncwidth.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,18 +0,0 @@
-#include <wchar.h>
-
-// wcwidth() might be missing some lengths (for instance, glibc didn't get
-// Unicode 13 support until 2.31). ncwidth() handles some characters on the
-// wcwidth() error path. it ought generally be used rather than wcwidth().
-static inline int
-ncwidth(wchar_t c){
-  int r = wcwidth(c);
-  if(r >= 0){
-    return r;
-  }
-  // Symbols for Legacy Computing were only added to glibc in 2.32 (along with
-  // the rest of Unicode 13). Handle them explicitly if wcwidth() failed.
-  if(c >= 0x1fb00 && c <= 0x1fb3b){
-    return 1;
-  }
-  return -1;
-}