diff --git a/jedi/parser/tokenize.py b/jedi/parser/tokenize.py
index e1ee08a9..c3b4fc7b 100644
--- a/jedi/parser/tokenize.py
+++ b/jedi/parser/tokenize.py
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ namechars = string.ascii_letters + '_'
 
 COMMENT = N_TOKENS
 tok_name[COMMENT] = 'COMMENT'
-ENCODING = N_TOKENS + 1
-tok_name[ENCODING] = 'ENCODING'
 
 
 class Token(object):