diff --git a/copyparty/stolen/surrogateescape.py b/copyparty/stolen/surrogateescape.py
index 18e4431b..4b06ed28 100644
--- a/copyparty/stolen/surrogateescape.py
+++ b/copyparty/stolen/surrogateescape.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# coding: utf-8
+
 """
 This is Victor Stinner's pure-Python implementation of PEP 383: the "surrogateescape" error
 handler of Python 3.
@@ -171,7 +173,7 @@ FS_ENCODING = sys.getfilesystemencoding()
 
 if WINDOWS and not PY3:
     # py2 thinks win* is mbcs, probably a bug? anyways this works
-    FS_ENCODING = 'utf-8'
+    FS_ENCODING = "utf-8"
 
 
 # normalize the filesystem encoding name.
diff --git a/scripts/make-sfx.sh b/scripts/make-sfx.sh
index 44c8cad0..cb22313d 100755
--- a/scripts/make-sfx.sh
+++ b/scripts/make-sfx.sh
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ help() { exec cat <<'EOF'
 #   (the fancy markdown editor)
 #
 # `no-fnt` saves ~9k by removing the source-code-pro font
-#   (mainly used my the markdown viewer/editor)
+#   (browsers on MS-Windows look pretty bad without this)
 #
 # `no-dd` saves ~2k by removing the mouse cursor
 
@@ -241,6 +241,12 @@ f=dep-j2/jinja2/constants.py
 awk '/^LOREM_IPSUM_WORDS/{o=1;print "LOREM_IPSUM_WORDS = u\"a\"";next} !o; /"""/{o=0}' <$f >t
 tmv "$f"
 
+grep -rLE '^#[^a-z]*coding: utf-8' dep-j2 |
+while IFS= read -r f; do
+	(echo "# coding: utf-8"; cat "$f") >t
+	tmv "$f"
+done
+
 # up2k goes from 28k to 22k laff
 awk 'BEGIN{gensub(//,"",1)}' </dev/null &&
 echo entabbening &&