diff --git a/OpenRA.Game/Platform.cs b/OpenRA.Game/Platform.cs
index 319be36028..f5504ee4db 100644
--- a/OpenRA.Game/Platform.cs
+++ b/OpenRA.Game/Platform.cs
@@ -201,26 +201,5 @@ namespace OpenRA
 
 			return path;
 		}
-
-		/// <summary>
-		/// Replace the full path prefix with the special notation characters ^ or .
-		/// and transforms \ path separators to / on Windows
-		/// </summary>
-		public static string UnresolvePath(string path)
-		{
-			// Use a case insensitive comparison on windows to avoid problems
-			// with inconsistent drive letter case
-			var compare = CurrentPlatform == PlatformType.Windows ? StringComparison.OrdinalIgnoreCase : StringComparison.Ordinal;
-			if (path.StartsWith(SupportDir, compare))
-				path = "^" + path.Substring(SupportDir.Length);
-
-			if (path.StartsWith(GameDir, compare))
-				path = "./" + path.Substring(GameDir.Length);
-
-			if (CurrentPlatform == PlatformType.Windows)
-				path = path.Replace('\\', '/');
-
-			return path;
-		}
 	}
 }
diff --git a/OpenRA.Mods.Common/UtilityCommands/ExtractLanguageStringsCommand.cs b/OpenRA.Mods.Common/UtilityCommands/ExtractLanguageStringsCommand.cs
index 7b88f6abb3..2dd8d140a0 100644
--- a/OpenRA.Mods.Common/UtilityCommands/ExtractLanguageStringsCommand.cs
+++ b/OpenRA.Mods.Common/UtilityCommands/ExtractLanguageStringsCommand.cs
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ namespace OpenRA.Mods.Common.UtilityCommands
 			{
 				modData.ModFiles.TryGetPackageContaining(filename, out var package, out var name);
 				name = package.Name + "/" + name;
-				Console.WriteLine("# {0}:", Platform.UnresolvePath(name));
+				Console.WriteLine("# {0}:", filename);
 
 				var yaml = MiniYaml.FromFile(name, false);
 				FromChromeLayout(ref yaml, null,
diff --git a/OpenRA.Test/OpenRA.Game/PlatformTest.cs b/OpenRA.Test/OpenRA.Game/PlatformTest.cs
index a1bc760149..4f583b1d5d 100644
--- a/OpenRA.Test/OpenRA.Game/PlatformTest.cs
+++ b/OpenRA.Test/OpenRA.Game/PlatformTest.cs
@@ -45,18 +45,5 @@ namespace OpenRA.Test
 			Assert.That(Platform.ResolvePath("testpath"),
 				Is.EqualTo("testpath"));
 		}
-
-		[TestCase(TestName = "Returns encoded paths")]
-		public void UnresolvePath()
-		{
-			Assert.That(Platform.UnresolvePath(Path.Combine(supportDir, "testpath")),
-				Is.EqualTo("^testpath"));
-
-			Assert.That(Platform.UnresolvePath(Path.Combine(gameDir, "testpath")),
-				Is.EqualTo("./testpath"));
-
-			Assert.That(Platform.UnresolvePath("testpath"),
-				Is.EqualTo("testpath"));
-		}
 	}
 }