Refs #23919 -- Removed default 'utf-8' argument for str.encode()/decode().

tests/utils_tests/test_text.py

@@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ class TestUtilsText(SimpleTestCase):
     def test_compress_sequence(self):
         data = [{'key': i} for i in range(10)]
         seq = list(json.JSONEncoder().iterencode(data))
-        seq = [s.encode('utf-8') for s in seq]
+        seq = [s.encode() for s in seq]
         actual_length = len(b''.join(seq))
         out = text.compress_sequence(seq)
         compressed_length = len(b''.join(out))