diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
index ef4bb18cb27..170ae7bee1f 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/CHANGES.txt
@@ -642,6 +642,9 @@ Release 2.8.0 - UNRELEASED
    MAPREDUCE-6533. testDetermineCacheVisibilities of
    TestClientDistributedCacheManager is broken (Chang Li via jlowe)
 
+   MAPREDUCE-6553. Replace '\u2b05' with '<-' in rendering job configuration.
+   (Gabor Liptak via aajisaka)
+
 Release 2.7.3 - UNRELEASED
 
   INCOMPATIBLE CHANGES
diff --git a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/webapp/ConfBlock.java b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/webapp/ConfBlock.java
index fd2edb45701..4cb79bf37ec 100644
--- a/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/webapp/ConfBlock.java
+++ b/hadoop-mapreduce-project/hadoop-mapreduce-client/hadoop-mapreduce-client-app/src/main/java/org/apache/hadoop/mapreduce/v2/app/webapp/ConfBlock.java
@@ -90,8 +90,7 @@ public class ConfBlock extends HtmlBlock {
         boolean first = true;
         for(int i = (sources.length  - 2); i >= 0; i--) {
           if(!first) {
-            // \u2B05 is an arrow <--
-            buffer.append(" \u2B05 ");
+            buffer.append(" <- ");
           }
           first = false;
           buffer.append(sources[i]);