diff --git a/lingucomponent/source/hyphenator/altlinuxhyph/hyphen/hyphenimp.hxx b/lingucomponent/source/hyphenator/altlinuxhyph/hyphen/hyphenimp.hxx
index 75b3de3ef191..3e16bc5dde81 100644
--- a/lingucomponent/source/hyphenator/altlinuxhyph/hyphen/hyphenimp.hxx
+++ b/lingucomponent/source/hyphenator/altlinuxhyph/hyphen/hyphenimp.hxx
@@ -4,9 +4,9 @@
  *
  *  $RCSfile: hyphenimp.hxx,v $
  *
- *  $Revision: 1.7 $
+ *  $Revision: 1.8 $
  *
- *  last change: $Author: rt $ $Date: 2006-02-06 16:23:50 $
+ *  last change: $Author: obo $ $Date: 2008-03-25 16:48:55 $
  *
  *  The Contents of this file are made available subject to
  *  the terms of GNU Lesser General Public License Version 2.1.
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@
 
 #include <unotools/charclass.hxx>
 
+#include <lingutil.hxx>
 #include <linguistic/misc.hxx>
 #include "hprophelp.hxx"
 #include <stdio.h>
@@ -73,16 +74,6 @@ using namespace ::com::sun::star::lang;
 using namespace ::com::sun::star::linguistic2;
 
 
-#define A2OU(x) ::rtl::OUString::createFromAscii( x )
-
-#define OU2A(rtlOUString)     ::rtl::OString((rtlOUString).getStr(), (rtlOUString).getLength(), RTL_TEXTENCODING_ASCII_US).getStr()
-
-#define OU2UTF8(rtlOUString)     ::rtl::OString((rtlOUString).getStr(), (rtlOUString).getLength(), RTL_TEXTENCODING_UTF8).getStr()
-
-#define OU2ISO_1(rtlOUString)     ::rtl::OString((rtlOUString).getStr(), (rtlOUString).getLength(), RTL_TEXTENCODING_ISO_8859_1).getStr()
-
-#define OU2ENC(rtlOUString, rtlEncoding)     ::rtl::OString((rtlOUString).getStr(), (rtlOUString).getLength(), rtlEncoding).getStr()
-
 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////