diff --git a/stl/inc/regex b/stl/inc/regex
index b5fa6cae39..f101e02355 100644
--- a/stl/inc/regex
+++ b/stl/inc/regex
@@ -293,8 +293,7 @@ public:
     }
 
     _Elem translate(_Elem _Ch) const { // provide locale-sensitive mapping
-        string_type _Res = _Getcoll()->transform(_STD addressof(_Ch), _STD addressof(_Ch) + 1);
-        return _Res.size() == 1 ? _Res[0] : _Ch;
+        return _Ch;
     }
 
     _Elem translate_nocase(_Elem _Ch) const { // provide case-insensitive mapping