diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 01b42f4..e293ddc 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -1376,6 +1376,7 @@
 Paul Sokolovsky
 Evgeny Sologubov
 Cody Somerville
+Anthony Sottile
 Edoardo Spadolini
 Geoffrey Spear
 Clay Spence
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index ec6626f..94d8255 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -107,6 +107,9 @@
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #26717: Stop encoding Latin-1-ized WSGI paths with UTF-8.  Patch by
+  Anthony Sottile.
+
 - Issue #26735: Fix :func:`os.urandom` on Solaris 11.3 and newer when reading
   more than 1,024 bytes: call ``getrandom()`` multiple times with a limit of
   1024 bytes per call.