diff --git a/libc/bionic/c32rtomb.cpp b/libc/bionic/c32rtomb.cpp
index d2519b9..4fa76ff 100644
--- a/libc/bionic/c32rtomb.cpp
+++ b/libc/bionic/c32rtomb.cpp
@@ -66,10 +66,8 @@
   // about the sequence length.
   uint8_t lead;
   size_t length;
-  if ((c32 & ~0x7f) == 0) {
-    lead = 0;
-    length = 1;
-  } else if ((c32 & ~0x7ff) == 0) {
+  // We already handled the 1-byte case above, so we go straight to 2-bytes...
+  if ((c32 & ~0x7ff) == 0) {
     lead = 0xc0;
     length = 2;
   } else if ((c32 & ~0xffff) == 0) {
diff --git a/libc/bionic/mbrtoc32.cpp b/libc/bionic/mbrtoc32.cpp
index 21603a1..d37ca66 100644
--- a/libc/bionic/mbrtoc32.cpp
+++ b/libc/bionic/mbrtoc32.cpp
@@ -80,11 +80,8 @@
   // The first byte in the state (if any) tells the length.
   size_t bytes_so_far = mbstate_bytes_so_far(state);
   ch = bytes_so_far > 0 ? mbstate_get_byte(state, 0) : static_cast<uint8_t>(*s);
-  if ((ch & 0x80) == 0) {
-    mask = 0x7f;
-    length = 1;
-    lower_bound = 0;
-  } else if ((ch & 0xe0) == 0xc0) {
+  // We already handled the 1-byte case above, so we go straight to 2-bytes...
+  if ((ch & 0xe0) == 0xc0) {
     mask = 0x1f;
     length = 2;
     lower_bound = 0x80;