--- a/eric6/Plugins/CheckerPlugins/SyntaxChecker/SyntaxCheck.py Sat Jun 20 17:36:20 2020 +0200 +++ b/eric6/Plugins/CheckerPlugins/SyntaxChecker/SyntaxCheck.py Sun Jun 21 18:26:12 2020 +0200 @@ -240,8 +240,6 @@ else: file_enc = filename - # It also encode the code back to avoid 'Encoding declaration in - # unicode string' exception on Python2 codestring = normalizeCode(codestring) # Check for VCS conflict markers