diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
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 Library
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+- Issue #8203: Fix IDLE Credits dialog: view_file() uses its encoding argument.
+
 - Issue #5311: bdist_msi can now build packages that do not depend on a
   specific Python version.