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 # go-utf8s
 
-Package **utf8s** provides tools provides tools for working with Unicode encoded as UTF-8, for the Go programming language.
+Package **utf8s** provides tools for working with Unicode encoded as UTF-8, for the Go programming language.
 
 
 ## Documention