diff --git a/mail_announcement.sh b/mail_announcement.sh
index 0c4a372..9a74cc2 100755
--- a/mail_announcement.sh
+++ b/mail_announcement.sh
@@ -1,21 +1,21 @@
 source ./version
 export LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8
 thedate="`date +'%d'`th `date +'%B %Y'`"
 changelog=`sed -e 's/^#* //;s/^\*/ /' ./changelog-$version`
 numModules=`wc -l modules.git | cut -d ' ' -f1`
 
 emailtext="$thedate. KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks $version.
 
-KDE Frameworks are $numModules addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of·
-commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested·
-libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the·
+KDE Frameworks are $numModules addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide
+variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well
+tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the
 Frameworks 5.0 release announcement.
 
 $changelog
 
 http://kde.org/announcements/kde-frameworks-$version.php
 "
 
 kmail kde-devel@kde.org kde-core-devel@kde.org --subject "KDE Frameworks $version released" --body "$emailtext"
 kmail kde-announce@kde.org --subject "KDE Frameworks $version released" --body "$emailtext"