diff --git a/devel/icu/pkg-descr b/devel/icu/pkg-descr
index e351fe587c29..d28d4b18190b 100644
--- a/devel/icu/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/icu/pkg-descr
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 The International Components for Unicode (ICU) is a C and C++ library
-providing Unicode support (p.ex. character set conversions, locales,
+providing Unicode support (ex. character set conversions, locales,
 normalization, transliteration, etc.).
 
 More information on ICU can be found on the homepage