diff --git a/parso/_compatibility.py b/parso/_compatibility.py
index d6ab82a..54ce8f8 100644
--- a/parso/_compatibility.py
+++ b/parso/_compatibility.py
@@ -14,14 +14,6 @@ except NameError:
 is_pypy = platform.python_implementation() == 'PyPy'
 
 
-try:
-    encoding = sys.stdout.encoding
-    if encoding is None:
-        encoding = 'utf-8'
-except AttributeError:
-    encoding = 'ascii'
-
-
 def u(string):
     """Cast to unicode DAMMIT!
     Written because Python2 repr always implicitly casts to a string, so we
diff --git a/parso/tree.py b/parso/tree.py
index c1bf759..045cd39 100644
--- a/parso/tree.py
+++ b/parso/tree.py
@@ -1,7 +1,6 @@
 import sys
 from abc import abstractmethod, abstractproperty
 
-from parso._compatibility import encoding
 from parso.utils import split_lines
 
 
@@ -334,8 +333,6 @@ class BaseNode(NodeOrLeaf):
 
     def __repr__(self):
         code = self.get_code().replace('\n', ' ').replace('\r', ' ').strip()
-        if not sys.version_info.major >= 3:
-            code = code.encode(encoding, 'replace')
         return "<%s: %s@%s,%s>" % \
             (type(self).__name__, code, self.start_pos[0], self.start_pos[1])