clean up

IPython/core/tests/test_history.py

@@ -22,7 +22,7 b' from IPython.core.history import HistoryManager, extract_hist_ranges'
 from IPython.utils import py3compat
 
 def setUp():
-    nt.assert_equal(sys.getdefaultencoding(), "utf-8" if py3compat.PY3 else "ascii")
+    nt.assert_equal(sys.getdefaultencoding(), "utf-8")
 
 def test_history():
     ip = get_ipython()