Core/PacketIO: Validate utf8 in every client packet

(cherry picked from commit 0a2a96efaa20fe5440eb5a2f21ffaddcdcea86d3)

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/server/game/Handlers/ChannelHandler.cpp b/src/server/game/Handlers/ChannelHandler.cpp
index 161b5ea784d..3d55008db27 100644
--- a/src/server/game/Handlers/ChannelHandler.cpp
+++ b/src/server/game/Handlers/ChannelHandler.cpp
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@
 #include "ObjectMgr.h"                                      // for normalizePlayerName
 #include "Player.h"
 #include <cctype>
-#include <utf8.h>
 
 static size_t const MAX_CHANNEL_NAME_STR = 0x31;
 static size_t const MAX_CHANNEL_PASS_STR = 31;
@@ -48,12 +47,6 @@ void WorldSession::HandleJoinChannel(WorldPackets::Channel::JoinChannel& packet)
     if (packet.ChannelName.empty())
         return;
 
-    if (!utf8::is_valid(packet.ChannelName.begin(), packet.ChannelName.end()))
-    {
-        TC_LOG_ERROR("network", "Player %s tried to create a channel with an invalid UTF8 sequence - blocked", GetPlayer()->GetGUID().ToString().c_str());
-        return;
-    }
-
     if (!ValidateHyperlinksAndMaybeKick(packet.ChannelName))
         return;