diff --git a/scripts/dev/check_non_utf8.py b/scripts/dev/check_non_utf8.py
index 3d88874560f..fc7825d3f70 100755
--- a/scripts/dev/check_non_utf8.py
+++ b/scripts/dev/check_non_utf8.py
@@ -59,7 +59,6 @@
 import io  # For Python 2 compat
 import sys
 
-# note I am skipping docs for right now; I want to do those files
 DIRS_TO_SKIP = [
     '.git', 'build', 'builds', 'cmake-build-debug',
     'cmake-build-release', 'design', 'release',