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diff --git a/utfebcdic.h b/utfebcdic.h
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--- a/utfebcdic.h
+++ b/utfebcdic.h
@@ -202,12 +202,8 @@ possible to UTF-8-encode a single code point in different ways, but that is
explicitly forbidden, and the shortest possible encoding should always be used
(and that is what Perl does). */
-/* It turns out that just this one number is sufficient to derive all the basic
- * macros for UTF-8 and UTF-EBCDIC. Everything follows from the fact that
- * there are 6 bits of real information in a UTF-8 continuation byte vs. 5 bits
- * in a UTF-EBCDIC one. */
+#define UTF_CONTINUATION_BYTE_INFO_BITS UTF_EBCDIC_CONTINUATION_BYTE_INFO_BITS
-#define UTF_CONTINUATION_BYTE_INFO_BITS 5
/* Also needed is how perl handles a start byte of 8 one bits. The decision
* was made to just append the minimal number of bytes after that so that code
* points up to 64 bits wide could be represented. In UTF-8, that was an extra