diff --git a/doc/source/conf.py b/doc/source/conf.py
index e723cf34..4a7d7c0f 100644
--- a/doc/source/conf.py
+++ b/doc/source/conf.py
@@ -1,4 +1,3 @@
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
 # nova-powervm documentation build configuration file, created by
 # sphinx-quickstart on Tue Feb  3 09:06:25 2015.