diff --git a/icu4c/source/extra/uconv/uconv.1.in b/icu4c/source/extra/uconv/uconv.1.in
index 5377031cd5..d29e0ac15f 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/extra/uconv/uconv.1.in
+++ b/icu4c/source/extra/uconv/uconv.1.in
@@ -378,8 +378,8 @@ $
 (The names are delimited by curly braces.
 Also, the name of the line terminator is also displayed.)
 .PP
-Normalize data using Unicode NFKC, remove all control characters,
-and map Katakana to Hiragana, in an UTF-8 file:
+Normalize UTF-8 data using Unicode NFKC, remove all control characters,
+and map Katakana to Hiragana:
 
 .RS 4
 .B \fR$ \fPuconv \-f utf-8 \-t utf-8 \e