From 8304433fb857e398e15f89680cf8f6c7599439a0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Amir E. Aharoni" <amir.aharoni@mail.huji.ac.il>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2024 22:26:03 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove unnecessary removal of LRM characters

It should have been done long ago, but slipped my mind.

Bug: T280435
Change-Id: I96c84c28217f436896654df6ea47019552af4faa
---
 data/LanguageNameIndexer.php | 3 ---
 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/data/LanguageNameIndexer.php b/data/LanguageNameIndexer.php
index 2519d035..f1d7ac49 100644
--- a/data/LanguageNameIndexer.php
+++ b/data/LanguageNameIndexer.php
@@ -65,9 +65,6 @@ class LanguageNameIndexer extends Maintenance {
 		$buckets = [];
 		foreach ( $languageNames as $translations ) {
 			foreach ( $translations as $targetLanguage => $translation ) {
-				// Remove directionality markers used in Names.php: users are not
-				// going to type these.
-				$translation = str_replace( "\xE2\x80\x8E", '', $translation );
 				$translation = mb_strtolower( $translation );
 				$translation = trim( $translation );