diff --git a/docs/usermanual-utilities.xml b/docs/usermanual-utilities.xml
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--- a/docs/usermanual-utilities.xml
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@@ -10,8 +10,7 @@
HarfBuzz includes several auxiliary components in addition to the
main APIs. These include a set of command-line tools, a set of
lower-level APIs for common data types that may be of interest to
- client programs, and an embedded library for working with
- Unicode Character Database (UCD) data.
+ client programs.
-
- UCDN
-
- HarfBuzz includes a copy of the UCDN (Unicode
- Database and Normalization) library, which provides functions
- for accessing basic Unicode character properties, performing
- canonical composition, and performing both canonical and
- compatibility decomposition.
-
-
- Currently, UCDN supports direct queries for several more character
- properties than HarfBuzz's built-in set of Unicode functions
- does, such as the BiDirectional Class, East Asian Width, Paired
- Bracket and Resolved Linebreak properties. If you need to access
- more properties than HarfBuzz's internal implementation
- provides, using the built-in UCDN functions may be a useful solution.
-
-
- The built-in UCDN functions are compiled by default when
- building HarfBuzz from source, but this can be disabled with a
- compile-time switch.
-
-
-