diff --git a/wp-includes/formatting.php b/wp-includes/formatting.php
index 72fcb4e554..b6bf168de2 100644
--- a/wp-includes/formatting.php
+++ b/wp-includes/formatting.php
@@ -2195,20 +2195,13 @@ function sanitize_file_name( $filename ) {
 
 	$special_chars = array( '?', '[', ']', '/', '\\', '=', '<', '>', ':', ';', ',', "'", '"', '&', '$', '#', '*', '(', ')', '|', '~', '`', '!', '{', '}', '%', '+', '’', '«', '»', '”', '“', chr( 0 ) );
 
-	// Check for support for utf8 in the installed PCRE library once and store the result in a static.
-	static $utf8_pcre = null;
-	if ( ! isset( $utf8_pcre ) ) {
-		// phpcs:ignore WordPress.PHP.NoSilencedErrors.Discouraged
-		$utf8_pcre = @preg_match( '/^./u', 'a' );
-	}
-
 	if ( ! wp_is_valid_utf8( $filename ) ) {
 		$_ext     = pathinfo( $filename, PATHINFO_EXTENSION );
 		$_name    = pathinfo( $filename, PATHINFO_FILENAME );
 		$filename = sanitize_title_with_dashes( $_name ) . '.' . $_ext;
 	}
 
-	if ( $utf8_pcre ) {
+	if ( _wp_can_use_pcre_u() ) {
 		/**
 		 * Replace all whitespace characters with a basic space (U+0020).
 		 *
diff --git a/wp-includes/version.php b/wp-includes/version.php
index 5489863251..ce229cb071 100644
--- a/wp-includes/version.php
+++ b/wp-includes/version.php
@@ -16,7 +16,7 @@
  *
  * @global string $wp_version
  */
-$wp_version = '6.9-alpha-60694';
+$wp_version = '6.9-alpha-60695';
 
 /**
  * Holds the WordPress DB revision, increments when changes are made to the WordPress DB schema.