diff --git a/lib/widget.js b/lib/widget.js
index c8c6095..fc7506b 100644
--- a/lib/widget.js
+++ b/lib/widget.js
@@ -983,9 +983,7 @@ Screen.prototype.draw = function(start, end) {
     , attr
     , fg
     , bg
-    , flags
-    , cwid
-    , point;
+    , flags;
 
   var main = ''
     , pre
@@ -1114,9 +1112,6 @@ Screen.prototype.draw = function(start, end) {
       // Optimize by comparing the real output
       // buffer to the pending output buffer.
       if (data === o[x][0] && ch === o[x][1]) {
-        // if (unicode.charWidth(ch, 0) === 2) {
-        //   x++;
-        // }
         if (lx === -1) {
           lx = x;
           ly = y;
@@ -1208,9 +1203,7 @@ Screen.prototype.draw = function(start, end) {
       if (this.fullUnicode) {
         // If this is a surrogate pair double-width char, we can ignore it
         // because parseContent already counted it as length=2.
-        point = unicode.codePointAt(line[x][1], 0);
-        cwid = unicode.charWidth(point);
-        if (cwid === 2) {
+        if (unicode.charWidth(line[x][1]) === 2) {
           // Might also need: `line[x + 1][0] !== line[x][0]`
           // for borderless boxes?
           if (x === line.length - 1 || angles[line[x + 1][1]]) {
@@ -2033,9 +2026,7 @@ Screen.prototype.screenshot = function(xi, xl, yi, yl, term) {
     , out
     , ch
     , data
-    , attr
-    , cwid
-    , point;
+    , attr;
 
   var sdattr = this.dattr;
 
@@ -2076,9 +2067,7 @@ Screen.prototype.screenshot = function(xi, xl, yi, yl, term) {
       }
 
       if (this.fullUnicode) {
-        point = unicode.codePointAt(line[x][1], 0);
-        cwid = unicode.charWidth(point);
-        if (cwid === 2) {
+        if (unicode.charWidth(line[x][1]) === 2) {
           if (x === xl - 1) {
             ch = ' ';
           } else {
@@ -2469,7 +2458,6 @@ Element.prototype.parseContent = function(noTags) {
 };
 
 Element.prototype.textLength = function(text) {
-  // return unicode.strWidth(text);
   if (!this.parseTags) return text.length;
   return text
     .replace(/{(\/?)([\w\-,;!#]*)}/g, '')
@@ -4150,19 +4138,6 @@ Element.prototype.render = function() {
         }
       }
 
-      // Alternative to regex to avoiding combining chars when fullUnicode=false
-      // NOTE: Wouldn't matter because the surrogate regex would already remove it.
-      // if (!this.screen.fullUnicode) {
-      //   var point = unicode.codePointAt(content, ci - 1);
-      //   if (unicode.combining[point]) {
-      //     if (point > 0x00ffff) {
-      //       ci++;
-      //     }
-      //     x--;
-      //     continue;
-      //   }
-      // }
-
       if (this.style.transparent) {
         lines[y][x][0] = blend(attr, lines[y][x][0]);
         if (content[ci]) lines[y][x][1] = ch;
diff --git a/test/widget-eaw.js b/test/widget-eaw.js
index 854bd1d..db59037 100644
--- a/test/widget-eaw.js
+++ b/test/widget-eaw.js
@@ -95,12 +95,7 @@ var lorem = 'Non eram nes' + (!~process.argv.indexOf('s') ? COMBINE : '')
 lorem = lorem.replace(/e/gi, DOUBLE);
 //lorem = lorem.replace(/e/gi, DU);
 //lorem = lorem.replace(/r/gi, JUAN);
-// NOTE: libvte breaks when trying to display
-// this surrogate pair double width character:
-// if (!~process.argv.indexOf('vte') && !screen.program.isVTE) {
-if (!~process.argv.indexOf('vte')) {
-  lorem = lorem.replace(/a/gi, SURROGATE_DOUBLE);
-}
+lorem = lorem.replace(/a/gi, SURROGATE_DOUBLE);
 lorem = lorem.replace(/o/gi, SURROGATE_SINGLE);
 if (~process.argv.indexOf('s')) {
   lorem = lorem.replace(/s/gi, 's' + COMBINE);