diff --git a/apps/openmw/mwgui/journalviewmodel.cpp b/apps/openmw/mwgui/journalviewmodel.cpp
index d7b233ff3..6ff68c9c5 100644
--- a/apps/openmw/mwgui/journalviewmodel.cpp
+++ b/apps/openmw/mwgui/journalviewmodel.cpp
@@ -314,7 +314,7 @@ struct JournalViewModelImpl : JournalViewModel
         for (MWBase::Journal::TTopicIter i = journal->topicBegin (); i != journal->topicEnd (); ++i)
         {
             Utf8Stream stream (i->first.c_str());
-            uint32_t first = Misc::StringUtils::toUpper(stream.peek());
+            uint32_t first = toUpper(stream.peek());
 
             if (first != character)
                 continue;
@@ -323,6 +323,23 @@ struct JournalViewModelImpl : JournalViewModel
         }
     }
 
+    static uint32_t toUpper(uint32_t ch)
+    {
+        // Russian alphabet
+        if (ch >= 0x0430 && ch < 0x0450)
+            ch -= 0x20;
+
+        // Cyrillic IO character
+        if (ch == 0x0451)
+            ch -= 0x50;
+
+        // Latin alphabet
+        if (ch >= 0x61 && ch < 0x80)
+            ch -= 0x20;
+
+        return ch;
+    }
+
     struct TopicEntryImpl : BaseEntry <MWDialogue::Topic::TEntryIter, TopicEntry>
     {
         MWDialogue::Topic const & mTopic;
diff --git a/components/misc/stringops.hpp b/components/misc/stringops.hpp
index 1edb5ea61..9f4931d72 100644
--- a/components/misc/stringops.hpp
+++ b/components/misc/stringops.hpp
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 #ifndef MISC_STRINGOPS_H
 #define MISC_STRINGOPS_H
 
-#include <stdint.h>
 #include <cctype>
 #include <cstring>
 #include <string>
@@ -57,23 +56,6 @@ public:
         };
     }
 
-    static uint32_t toUpper(uint32_t ch)
-    {
-        // Russian alphabet
-        if (ch >= 0x0430 && ch < 0x0450)
-            ch -= 0x20;
-
-        // Cyrillic YO character
-        if (ch == 0x0451)
-            ch -= 0x50;
-
-        // Latin alphabet
-        if (ch >= 0x61 && ch < 0x80)
-            ch -= 0x20;
-
-        return ch;
-    }
-
     static bool ciLess(const std::string &x, const std::string &y) {
         return std::lexicographical_compare(x.begin(), x.end(), y.begin(), y.end(), ci());
     }