diff --git a/taglib/toolkit/tiostream.cpp b/taglib/toolkit/tiostream.cpp
index c2ad2912..0284aed6 100644
--- a/taglib/toolkit/tiostream.cpp
+++ b/taglib/toolkit/tiostream.cpp
@@ -40,8 +40,12 @@ namespace
 
   bool supportsUnicode()
   {
+#ifdef UNICODE
+    return true;
+#else
     const FARPROC p = GetProcAddress(GetModuleHandleA("kernel32"), "CreateFileW");
     return (p != NULL);
+#endif
   }
 
   // Indicates whether the system supports Unicode file names.