diff --git a/spacy/lang/ne/examples.py b/spacy/lang/ne/examples.py
index b3c4f9e73..a29b77c2f 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/ne/examples.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/ne/examples.py
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-# coding: utf8
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
-
 """
 Example sentences to test spaCy and its language models.
 
diff --git a/spacy/lang/ne/lex_attrs.py b/spacy/lang/ne/lex_attrs.py
index 652307577..7cb01c515 100644
--- a/spacy/lang/ne/lex_attrs.py
+++ b/spacy/lang/ne/lex_attrs.py
@@ -1,6 +1,3 @@
-# coding: utf8
-from __future__ import unicode_literals
-
 from ..norm_exceptions import BASE_NORMS
 from ...attrs import NORM, LIKE_NUM