Backport of r64677.

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cookielib.py b/Lib/test/test_cookielib.py
index 991506cb5488f234bd85a34c5db92ac4e6f1abb2..66f9a83041fd72896a4f685e5b6f22998ad0519f 100644 (file)
--- a/Lib/test/test_cookielib.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_cookielib.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+# -*- coding: latin-1 -*-
 """Tests for cookielib.py."""
 
 import re, os, time

diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ebaefd48c43ebbf1e6059a68318fd99bb8fce377..c8fbedf8f2d0d8f256e2861c05f5d9ae7fcd6785 100644 (file)
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -117,6 +117,8 @@ Extension Modules
 Tests
 -----
 
+- Issue #3261: test_cookielib had an improper file encoding specified.
+
 - Patch #2232: os.tmpfile might fail on Windows if the user has no
   permission to create files in the root directory.