diff --git a/classes/Tools.php b/classes/Tools.php
index a89b4db15..6e6ac3151 100644
--- a/classes/Tools.php
+++ b/classes/Tools.php
@@ -1222,11 +1222,6 @@ class ToolsCore
 			'ellipsis' => '...', 'exact' => true, 'html' => true
 		);
 
-		if (isset($options['ending']))
-			$default['ellipsis'] = $options['ending'];
-		elseif (!empty($options['html']) && Configure::read('App.encoding') === 'UTF-8')
-			$default['ellipsis'] = "\xe2\x80\xa6";
-
 		$options = array_merge($default, $options);
 		extract($options);