diff --git a/lib/jekyll/converters/markdown/kramdown_parser.rb b/lib/jekyll/converters/markdown/kramdown_parser.rb
index a9650cc7..ea8053db 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/converters/markdown/kramdown_parser.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/converters/markdown/kramdown_parser.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
 # Frozen-string-literal: true
-# Encoding: utf-8
 
 module Jekyll
   module Converters
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/utils/ansi.rb b/lib/jekyll/utils/ansi.rb
index 8bdd2322..dedec194 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/utils/ansi.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/utils/ansi.rb
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 # Frozen-string-literal: true
 # Copyright: 2015 Jekyll - MIT License
-# Encoding: utf-8
 
 module Jekyll
   module Utils