From 6d7f9375a5181925f561720cdbce0a618a57606a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brett Cannon <bcannon@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2008 22:08:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Backport of r64677.

---
 Lib/test/test_cookielib.py | 2 +-
 Misc/NEWS                  | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Lib/test/test_cookielib.py b/Lib/test/test_cookielib.py
index 991506cb54..66f9a83041 100644
--- 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 ebaefd48c4..c8fbedf8f2 100644
--- 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.
 
-- 
2.50.1