diff --git a/lib/unicode_normalize/tables.rb b/lib/unicode_normalize/tables.rb
index 06d92714fe..707820318d 100644
--- a/lib/unicode_normalize/tables.rb
+++ b/lib/unicode_normalize/tables.rb
@@ -4,8 +4,6 @@
 # automatically generated by template/unicode_norm_gen.tmpl
 
 module UnicodeNormalize
-  UNICODE_VERSION = "8.0.0"
-
   accents = "" \
     "[\u0300-\u034E\u0350-\u036F\u0483-\u0487\u0591-\u05BD\u05BF\u05C1\u05C2\u05C4\u05C5\u05C7" \
     "\u0610-\u061A\u064B-\u065F\u0670\u06D6-\u06DC\u06DF-\u06E4\u06E7\u06E8\u06EA-\u06ED\u0711" \