diff --git a/cli/commands/execute.js b/cli/commands/execute.js
index ee468cf..0d906bc 100644
--- a/cli/commands/execute.js
+++ b/cli/commands/execute.js
@@ -246,12 +246,11 @@ async function run_non_interactively(files, argv) {
 exports.handler = async argv => {
     const files = [...(argv.files || []), argv.file].map(file_path => {
         const buffer = fs.readFileSync(file_path);
-        // Checks for � (the replacement character) after encoding the buffer to uf8
         const encoding =
             (buffer
                 .toString()
                 .split('')
-                .some(x => x.charCodeAt(0) === 65533) &&
+                .some(x => x.charCodeAt(0) >= 128) &&
                 'base64') ||
             'utf8';
         return {
diff --git a/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/build.sh b/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/build.sh
deleted file mode 100644
index cf63d26..0000000
--- a/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/build.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,15 +0,0 @@
-curl -L https://github.com/emojicode/emojicode/releases/download/v1.0-beta.2/Emojicode-1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64.tar.gz -o emoji.tar.gz
-tar xzf emoji.tar.gz
-
-mv Emojicode-1.0-beta.2-Linux-x86_64 emoji
-
-rm emoji.tar.gz
-
-cd emoji
-
-./install.sh
-
-
-chmod +x emojicodec
-
-cd ..
diff --git a/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/compile b/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/compile
deleted file mode 100644
index 1ff67af..0000000
--- a/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/compile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,4 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-"$EMOJI_PATH"/emojicodec -S "$EMOJI_PATH"/packages "$1" -o "bruh.exe"
-chmod +x "bruh.exe"
diff --git a/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/environment b/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/environment
deleted file mode 100644
index 4e32c1f..0000000
--- a/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/environment
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-# Put 'export' statements here for environment variables
-export PATH=$PWD/bin:$PATH
-export EMOJI_PATH=$PWD/emoji
diff --git a/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/metadata.json b/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/metadata.json
deleted file mode 100644
index 6b2449a..0000000
--- a/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/metadata.json
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-{
-  "language": "emojicode",
-  "version": "1.0.2",
-  "aliases": [
-    "emojic"
-  ]
-}
diff --git a/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/run b/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/run
deleted file mode 100644
index 014c2c6..0000000
--- a/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/run
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-
-shift
-
-./"bruh.exe" "$@"
diff --git a/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/test.emojic b/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/test.emojic
deleted file mode 100644
index f80f01b..0000000
--- a/packages/emojicode/1.0.2/test.emojic
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-🏁 🍇
-  😀 🔤OK🔤❗️
-🍉
diff --git a/readme.md b/readme.md
index 261053c..cebde53 100644
--- a/readme.md
+++ b/readme.md
@@ -328,7 +328,6 @@ Content-Type: application/json
 `dragon`,
 `elixir`,
 `emacs`,
-`emojicode`,
 `erlang`,
 `file`,
 `forte`,