diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
index 6b996aa50..d655ba26e 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/crawl.tmpl
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
 import re
 
 from scrapy.selector import HtmlXPathSelector
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl
index 8d4b5dfc7..794288570 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/csvfeed.tmpl
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
 from scrapy.contrib.spiders import CSVFeedSpider
 from $project_name.items import ${ProjectName}Item
 
diff --git a/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl b/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl
index 2ca44b752..f249b4537 100644
--- a/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl
+++ b/scrapy/templates/spiders/xmlfeed.tmpl
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf8 -*-
 from scrapy.contrib.spiders import XMLFeedSpider
 from $project_name.items import ${ProjectName}Item