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+.. change::
+    :tags: bug, templates
+    :tickets: 267
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+    The default template encoding is now utf-8.  Previously, the encoding was
+    "ascii", which was standard throughout Python 2.   This allows that
+    "magic encoding comment" for utf-8 templates is no longer required.
+