Do not impose an arbitrary encoding in spider templates, because we don't know beforehand what enconding our users will use in their editors.

scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
 import re
 
 from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector

scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
 from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CSVFeedSpider
 from $project_name.items import ${ProjectName}Item
 

scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl

@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
 from scrapy.contrib.spiders import XMLFeedSpider
 from $project_name.items import ${ProjectName}Item