diff --git a/graphics/fontmatrix/README b/graphics/fontmatrix/README
index 9cacac854c..4b7ab8f518 100644
--- a/graphics/fontmatrix/README
+++ b/graphics/fontmatrix/README
@@ -12,7 +12,6 @@ it creates a nice PDF catalogue of user's fonts for printing or
 reference. In short, fontmatrix is a font manager for professionals,
 but is nice and user friendly.
 
-This package can optionally use podofo and icu4c if installed before
+This package can optionally use podofo if it is installed before
 compile time.  To use podofo then pass HAVE_PODOFO="yes" to the
-slackbuild. Alternatively, or in addition to podofo, you can pass
-HAVE_ICU="yes" to the slackbuild for icu4c support.
+slackbuild.
diff --git a/graphics/fontmatrix/fontmatrix.SlackBuild b/graphics/fontmatrix/fontmatrix.SlackBuild
index 7f6451642c..a0177b0317 100644
--- a/graphics/fontmatrix/fontmatrix.SlackBuild
+++ b/graphics/fontmatrix/fontmatrix.SlackBuild
@@ -38,8 +38,7 @@ else
   LIBDIRSUFFIX=""
 fi
 
-# Decide if we compile fontmatrix with icu4c and/or podofo support. Default is no.
-HAVE_ICU=${HAVE_ICU:-no}
+# Decide if we compile fontmatrix with podofo support. Default is no.
 HAVE_PODOFO=${HAVE_PODOFO:-no}
 
 set -e
@@ -65,13 +64,6 @@ patch -p1 < $CWD/fix-podofo-detection.patch
 PYVER=$(python -c 'import sys; print sys.version[:3]')
 PY_LIB_SHARED="/usr/lib${LIBDIRSUFFIX}/libpython${PYVER}.so"
 
-# Decide if we use ICU.
-if [ "${HAVE_ICU}" == "yes" ]; then
-  USE_ICU="TRUE"
-else
-  USE_ICU="FALSE"
-fi
-
 # Decide if we use PODOFO.
 if [ "${HAVE_PODOFO}" == "yes" ]; then
   USE_PODOFO="TRUE"
@@ -87,7 +79,7 @@ mkdir build && cd build
     -DOWN_SHAPER:BOOL=1 \
     -DCMAKE_SKIP_RPATH:BOOL=1 \
     -DRPATH_STYLE:STRING=none \
-    -DWANT_ICU:BOOL="$USE_ICU" \
+    -DWANT_ICU:BOOL=true \
     -DWANT_M17N:BOOL=true \
     -DWANT_PYTHONQT:BOOL=true \
     -DWANT_PODOFO:BOOL="$USE_PODOFO" \