--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@
 # Check for bind_textdomain_codeset, including -lintl if GLib brings it in by
 # doing the same check as glib. We can't check that by linking to glib because
 # it might be a subproject and hence not built yet.
-if cc.has_function('ngettext')
+if true
   libintl_dep = []
   cdata.set('HAVE_BIND_TEXTDOMAIN_CODESET', 1)
 else