diff --git a/test/shaping/hb-unicode-decode b/test/shaping/hb-unicode-decode
index df3d23960..e880f490c 100755
--- a/test/shaping/hb-unicode-decode
+++ b/test/shaping/hb-unicode-decode
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ def decode (s):
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 
 	if len (sys.argv) == 1 or ('--stdin' in sys.argv and len (sys.argv) != 2):
-		print "Usage:\n  %s [UNICODE_STRING]...\nor:\n  %s --stdin" % (sys.argv[0], sys.argv[0])
+		print "Usage:\n  %s UNICODE_STRING...\nor:\n  %s --stdin" % (sys.argv[0], sys.argv[0])
 		sys.exit (1)
 
 	if '--stdin' in sys.argv:
diff --git a/test/shaping/hb-unicode-prettyname b/test/shaping/hb-unicode-prettyname
index 27d2dee9b..1447fca02 100755
--- a/test/shaping/hb-unicode-prettyname
+++ b/test/shaping/hb-unicode-prettyname
@@ -34,15 +34,14 @@ def pretty_name (x):
 
 
 def pretty_names (s):
-	s = re.sub (r"[<+>\\]", "", s)
-	s = re.sub (r"[uU]", " ", s)
+	s = re.sub (r"[<+>\\uU]", " ", s)
 	s = [unichr (int (x, 16)) for x in re.split ('[, \n]', s) if len (x)]
 	return ' + '.join (pretty_name (x) for x in s)
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
 
 	if len (sys.argv) == 1 or ('--stdin' in sys.argv and len (sys.argv) != 2):
-		print "Usage:\n  %s [UNICODE_CODEPOINTS]...\nor:\n  %s --stdin" % (sys.argv[0], sys.argv[0])
+		print "Usage:\n  %s UNICODE_CODEPOINTS...\nor:\n  %s --stdin" % (sys.argv[0], sys.argv[0])
 		sys.exit (1)
 
 	if '--stdin' in sys.argv: