diff --git a/src/hb-ot-cmap-table.hh b/src/hb-ot-cmap-table.hh
index 5a1b6b278..88757b42a 100644
--- a/src/hb-ot-cmap-table.hh
+++ b/src/hb-ot-cmap-table.hh
@@ -2035,16 +2035,6 @@ struct cmap
     return &(this+result.subtable);
   }
 
-  const EncodingRecord *find_encodingrec (unsigned int platform_id,
-					  unsigned int encoding_id) const
-  {
-    EncodingRecord key;
-    key.platformID = platform_id;
-    key.encodingID = encoding_id;
-
-    return encodingRecord.as_array ().bsearch (key);
-  }
-
   public:
 
   bool sanitize (hb_sanitize_context_t *c) const