diff --git a/pep-0008.txt b/pep-0008.txt
index 1b6ca55be..1c5df7070 100644
--- a/pep-0008.txt
+++ b/pep-0008.txt
@@ -244,14 +244,15 @@ you may use them to separate pages of related sections of your file.
 Note, some editors and web-based code viewers may not recognize
 control-L as a form feed and will show another glyph in its place.
 
-Encodings (PEP 263)
--------------------
+
+Source File Encoding
+--------------------
 
 Code in the core Python distribution should always use UTF-8 (or ASCII
 in Python 2).
 
-Files using ASCII (in Python 2) or UTF-8 (in Python 3) should not have a
-coding cookie.
+Files using ASCII (in Python 2) or UTF-8 (in Python 3) should not have
+an encoding declaration.
 
 In the standard library, non-default encodings should be used only for
 test purposes or when a comment or docstring needs to mention an author