diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 959f2d502af..89124f4a02b 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Without you, I would've stopped working on Python long ago!
 
 	--Guido
 
-PS: In the standard Python distribution, this file is encoded in Latin-1.
+PS: In the standard Python distribution, this file is encoded in UTF-8.
 
 David Abrahams
 Jim Ahlstrom
@@ -15,10 +15,11 @@ Farhan Ahmad
 Jyrki Alakuijala
 Billy G. Allie
 Kevin Altis
+Joe Amenta
 Mark Anacker
 Anders Andersen
 John Anderson
-Erik Andersén
+Erik Andersén
 Oliver Andrich
 Ross Andrus
 Jason Asbahr
@@ -195,7 +196,7 @@ Gary Duzan
 Eugene Dvurechenski
 Josip Dzolonga
 Maxim Dzumanenko
-Walter Dörwald
+Walter Dörwald
 Hans Eckardt
 Grant Edwards
 John Ehresman
@@ -206,7 +207,7 @@ David Ely
 Jeff Epler
 Tom Epperly
 Stoffel Erasmus
-Jürgen A. Erhard
+Jürgen A. Erhard
 Michael Ernst
 Ben Escoto
 Andy Eskilsson
@@ -229,7 +230,7 @@ Russell Finn
 Nils Fischbeck
 Frederik Fix
 Matt Fleming
-Hernán Martínez Foffani
+Hernán Martínez Foffani
 Michael Foord
 Amaury Forgeot d'Arc
 Doug Fort
@@ -243,7 +244,7 @@ Gyro Funch
 Peter Funk
 Geoff Furnish
 Ulisses Furquim
-Hagen Fürstenau
+Hagen Fürstenau
 Achim Gaedke
 Martin von Gagern
 Lele Gaifax
@@ -275,13 +276,13 @@ Eddy De Greef
 Duncan Grisby
 Dag Gruneau
 Michael Guravage
-Lars Gustäbel
-Thomas Güttler
+Lars Gustäbel
+Thomas Güttler
 Barry Haddow
 Paul ten Hagen
 Rasmus Hahn
 Peter Haight
-Václav Haisman
+Václav Haisman
 Bob Halley
 Jesse Hallio
 Jun Hamano
@@ -305,7 +306,7 @@ Jonathan Hendry
 James Henstridge
 Chris Herborth
 Ivan Herman
-Jürgen Hermann
+Jürgen Hermann
 Gary Herron
 Thomas Herve
 Bernhard Herzog
@@ -342,7 +343,7 @@ Jim Hugunin
 Greg Humphreys
 Eric Huss
 Jeremy Hylton
-Gerhard Häring
+Gerhard Häring
 Mihai Ibanescu
 Lars Immisch
 Tony Ingraldi
@@ -358,7 +359,7 @@ Geert Jansen
 Jack Jansen
 Bill Janssen
 Drew Jenkins
-Flemming Kjær Jensen
+Flemming Kjær Jensen
 Jiba
 Orjan Johansen
 Fredrik Johansson
@@ -457,7 +458,7 @@ Fredrik Lundh
 Mark Lutz
 Jim Lynch
 Mikael Lyngvig
-Martin von Löwis
+Martin von Löwis
 Andrew I MacIntyre
 Tim MacKenzie
 Nick Maclaren
@@ -470,7 +471,7 @@ David Marek
 Doug Marien
 Alex Martelli
 Anthony Martin
-Sébastien Martini
+Sébastien Martini
 Roger Masse
 Nick Mathewson
 Graham Matthews
@@ -517,7 +518,7 @@ Fredrik Nehr
 Trent Nelson
 Tony Nelson
 Chad Netzer
-Max Neunhöffer
+Max Neunhöffer
 George Neville-Neil
 Johannes Nicolai
 Samuel Nicolary
@@ -546,7 +547,7 @@ Russel Owen
 Ondrej Palkovsky
 Mike Pall
 Todd R. Palmer
-Juan David Ibáñez Palomar
+Juan David Ibáñez Palomar
 Jan Palus
 M. Papillon
 Peter Parente
@@ -557,7 +558,7 @@ Randy Pausch
 Samuele Pedroni
 Marcel van der Peijl
 Steven Pemberton
-Santiago Peresón
+Santiago Peresón
 Mark Perrego
 Trevor Perrin
 Gabriel de Perthuis
@@ -573,11 +574,11 @@ Neale Pickett
 Jim St. Pierre
 Dan Pierson
 Martijn Pieters
-François Pinard
+François Pinard
 Zach Pincus
 Michael Piotrowski
 Antoine Pitrou
-Jean-François Piéronne
+Jean-François Piéronne
 Guilherme Polo
 Michael Pomraning
 Iustin Pop
@@ -586,8 +587,8 @@ Amrit Prem
 Paul Prescod
 Donovan Preston
 Steve Purcell
-Fernando Pérez
-Eduardo Pérez
+Fernando Pérez
+Eduardo Pérez
 Brian Quinlan
 Anders Qvist
 Burton Radons
@@ -745,7 +746,7 @@ Anthony Tuininga
 Stephen Turner
 Bill Tutt
 Doobee R. Tzeck
-Eren Türkay
+Eren Türkay
 Lionel Ulmer
 Roger Upole
 Michael Urman
@@ -823,5 +824,5 @@ Artur Zaprzala
 Mike Zarnstorff
 Siebren van der Zee
 Uwe Zessin
-Tarek ZiadŽ
-Peter Åstrand
+Tarek Ziadé
+Peter Ã…strand
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 2b7fe803e0e..fa262093a9c 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -179,7 +179,7 @@ Core and Builtins
 possible to update the lineno attribute of the current frame.
 
 - Issue #5330: C functions called with keyword arguments were not reported by
-the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
+  the various profiling modules (profile, cProfile). Patch by Hagen Fürstenau.
 
 Library
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