diff --git a/bin/.travis/prepare_unittest.sh b/bin/.travis/prepare_unittest.sh
index f78775dc..dd16bc35 100755
--- a/bin/.travis/prepare_unittest.sh
+++ b/bin/.travis/prepare_unittest.sh
@@ -4,10 +4,8 @@
 
 # Disable xdebug to speed things up as we don't currently generate coverge on travis
 # And make sure we use UTF-8 encoding
-if [ "$TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION" != "hhvm" ] ; then
-    phpenv config-rm xdebug.ini
-    echo "default_charset = UTF-8" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini
-fi
+phpenv config-rm xdebug.ini
+echo "default_charset = UTF-8" >> ~/.phpenv/versions/$(phpenv version-name)/etc/php.ini
 
 # Setup DB
 if [ "$DB" = "mysql" ] ; then