diff --git a/share/groff/fish.tmac b/share/groff/fish.tmac
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--- a/share/groff/fish.tmac
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@@ -1,14 +0,0 @@
-.\" This is needed on systems that ship with groff versions older than 1.20;
-.\" such as macOS up thru Sierra (10.12). See fish issue #2673.
-.\"
-.\" For UTF-8, map some characters conservatively for the sake
-.\" of easy cut and paste.
-.
-.if '\*[.T]'utf8' \{\
-.  rchar \- - ' `
-.
-.  char \- \N'45'
-.  char  - \N'45'
-.  char  ' \N'39'
-.  char  ` \N'96'
-.\}