diff --git a/.gitattributes b/.gitattributes
index 83fcea5b8a..4bfb378f30 100644
--- a/.gitattributes
+++ b/.gitattributes
@@ -74,16 +74,8 @@ icu4c/source/data/region/pool.res -text
 icu4c/source/data/zone/pool.res -text
 icu4c/source/extra/uconv/uconv.vcxproj -text
 icu4c/source/extra/uconv/uconv.vcxproj.filters -text
-icu4c/source/i18n/decfmtst.cpp -text
-icu4c/source/i18n/decfmtst.h -text
 icu4c/source/i18n/i18n.vcxproj -text
 icu4c/source/i18n/i18n.vcxproj.filters -text
-icu4c/source/i18n/smpdtfst.cpp -text
-icu4c/source/i18n/smpdtfst.h -text
-icu4c/source/i18n/udateintervalformat.cpp -text
-icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/udateintervalformat.h -text
-icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/upluralrules.h -text
-icu4c/source/i18n/upluralrules.cpp -text
 icu4c/source/io/io.vcxproj -text
 icu4c/source/io/io.vcxproj.filters -text
 icu4c/source/layout/layout.vcxproj -text
@@ -141,10 +133,8 @@ icu4c/source/samples/ustring/ustring.vcxproj -text
 icu4c/source/samples/ustring/ustring.vcxproj.filters -text
 icu4c/source/stubdata/stubdata.vcxproj -text
 icu4c/source/stubdata/stubdata.vcxproj.filters -text
-icu4c/source/test/cintltst/cdateintervalformattest.c -text
 icu4c/source/test/cintltst/cintltst.vcxproj -text
 icu4c/source/test/cintltst/cintltst.vcxproj.filters -text
-icu4c/source/test/cintltst/cpluralrulestest.c -text
 icu4c/source/test/intltest/intltest.vcxproj -text
 icu4c/source/test/intltest/intltest.vcxproj.filters -text
 icu4c/source/test/iotest/iotest.vcxproj -text
diff --git a/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/udateintervalformat.h b/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/udateintervalformat.h
index 19295bdd0d..4a4230a98e 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/udateintervalformat.h
+++ b/icu4c/source/i18n/unicode/udateintervalformat.h
@@ -25,19 +25,22 @@
  *
  * For example, if the range is 2010-03-04 07:56 - 2010-03-04 19:56 (12 hours)
  * - The skeleton jm will produce
- *   for en_US, "7:56 AM – 7:56 PM"
- *   for en_GB, "7:56 – 19:56"
+ *   for en_US, "7:56 AM - 7:56 PM"
+ *   for en_GB, "7:56 - 19:56"
  * - The skeleton MMMd will produce
  *   for en_US, "Mar 4"
  *   for en_GB, "4 Mar"
  * If the range is 2010-03-04 07:56 - 2010-03-08 16:11 (4 days, 8 hours, 15 minutes)
  * - The skeleton jm will produce
- *   for en_US, "3/4/2010 7:56 AM – 3/8/2010 4:11 PM"
- *   for en_GB, "4/3/2010 7:56 – 8/3/2010 16:11"
+ *   for en_US, "3/4/2010 7:56 AM - 3/8/2010 4:11 PM"
+ *   for en_GB, "4/3/2010 7:56 - 8/3/2010 16:11"
  * - The skeleton MMMd will produce
- *   for en_US, "Mar 4–8"
+ *   for en_US, "Mar 4-8"
  *   for en_GB, "4-8 Mar"
  * 
+ * Note:  the "-" characters in the above sample output will actually be
+ * Unicode 2013, EN_DASH, in all but the last example.
+ *
  * Note, in ICU 4.4 the standard skeletons for which date interval format data
  * is usually available are as follows; best results will be obtained by using
  * skeletons from this set, or those formed by combining these standard skeletons
diff --git a/icu4c/source/tools/icu-svnprops-check.py b/icu4c/source/tools/icu-svnprops-check.py
index 547291c4fa..a20b545d4d 100755
--- a/icu4c/source/tools/icu-svnprops-check.py
+++ b/icu4c/source/tools/icu-svnprops-check.py
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #! /usr/bin/python
 
-# Copyright (C) 2009-2010, International Business Machines Corporation, Google and Others.
+# Copyright (C) 2009-2011, International Business Machines Corporation, Google and Others.
 # All rights reserved.
 
 #
@@ -182,8 +182,8 @@ def check_utf8(file_name, base_mime_type, actual_mime_type):
     if ord(bytes[0]) != 0xef:
       print "UTF-8 file with no BOM: " + file_name
 
-    # Append charset=utf-8.  Need to escape the ';' because it is ultimately going to a shell.
-    return base_mime_type + '\\;charset=utf-8'
+    # Append charset=utf-8.
+    return base_mime_type + ';charset=utf-8'
 
 
 def main(argv):