diff --git a/icu4c/source/common/utext.cpp b/icu4c/source/common/utext.cpp
index a83e3d90048..19ab5bdfbb5 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/common/utext.cpp
+++ b/icu4c/source/common/utext.cpp
@@ -1094,7 +1094,6 @@ repTextExtract(UText *ut,
                UErrorCode *status) {
     const Replaceable *rep=(const Replaceable *)ut->context;
     int32_t  length=rep->length();
-    int32_t  lengthToExtract = length;
 
     if(U_FAILURE(*status)) {
         return 0;
diff --git a/icu4c/source/test/intltest/utxttest.cpp b/icu4c/source/test/intltest/utxttest.cpp
index a93819ffef1..49d140c5141 100644
--- a/icu4c/source/test/intltest/utxttest.cpp
+++ b/icu4c/source/test/intltest/utxttest.cpp
@@ -256,22 +256,22 @@ void UTextTest::TestString(const UnicodeString &s) {
 void UTextTest::TestCMR(const UnicodeString &us, UText *ut, int cpCount, m *nativeMap, m *u16Map) {
     TEST_ASSERT(utext_isWritable(ut) == TRUE);
 
-    int  srcLengthType;      // Loop variables for selecting the postion and length
-    int  srcPosType;         //   of the block to operate on within the source text.
+    int  srcLengthType;       // Loop variables for selecting the postion and length
+    int  srcPosType;          //   of the block to operate on within the source text.
     int  destPosType; 
 
-    int  srcIndex;           // Code Point indexes of the block to operate on for
-    int  srcLength;          //   a specific test.
+    int  srcIndex  = 0;       // Code Point indexes of the block to operate on for
+    int  srcLength = 0;       //   a specific test.
 
-    int  destIndex;          // Code point index of the destination for a copy/move test.
+    int  destIndex = 0;       // Code point index of the destination for a copy/move test.
 
-    int32_t  nativeStart;    // Native unit indexes for a test.
-    int32_t  nativeLimit;
-    int32_t  nativeDest;
+    int32_t  nativeStart = 0; // Native unit indexes for a test.
+    int32_t  nativeLimit = 0;
+    int32_t  nativeDest  = 0;
 
-    int32_t  u16Start;       // UTF-16 indexes for a test.
-    int32_t  u16Limit;       //   used when performing the same operation in a Unicode String
-    int32_t  u16Dest;
+    int32_t  u16Start    = 0; // UTF-16 indexes for a test.
+    int32_t  u16Limit    = 0; //   used when performing the same operation in a Unicode String
+    int32_t  u16Dest     = 0;
 
     // Iterate over a whole series of source index, length and a target indexes.
     // This is done with code point indexes; these will be later translated to native