diff --git a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/tokenattributes/CharTermAttributeImpl.java b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/tokenattributes/CharTermAttributeImpl.java
index 273102cbb63..784330a6506 100644
--- a/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/tokenattributes/CharTermAttributeImpl.java
+++ b/lucene/core/src/java/org/apache/lucene/analysis/tokenattributes/CharTermAttributeImpl.java
@@ -85,13 +85,11 @@ public class CharTermAttributeImpl extends AttributeImpl implements CharTermAttr
   // *** TermToBytesRefAttribute interface ***
   private BytesRef bytes = new BytesRef(MIN_BUFFER_SIZE);
 
-  // not until java 6 @Override
   @Override
   public int fillBytesRef() {
     return UnicodeUtil.UTF16toUTF8WithHash(termBuffer, 0, termLength, bytes);
   }
 
-  // not until java 6 @Override
   @Override
   public BytesRef getBytesRef() {
     return bytes;