diff --git a/spec/version_spec.rb b/spec/version_spec.rb
index 9a64555..c012b2b 100644
--- a/spec/version_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/version_spec.rb
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-# Encoding: UTF-8
-
 #
 # Authors:: Chef Partner Engineering (<partnereng@chef.io>)
 # Copyright:: Copyright (c) 2015 Chef Software, Inc.