diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index 5d82c56..b1f3b1d 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -1,9 +1,5 @@
 2.7 (to come)
 
-Breaking changes:
-
-o -utf8 is now the default. Set -stripped to get old behaviour.
-
 New features:
 
 o Split files to max size with -split-max
diff --git a/cpdfcommand.ml b/cpdfcommand.ml
index 3675404..1fff3ac 100644
--- a/cpdfcommand.ml
+++ b/cpdfcommand.ml
@@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ let args =
    process_struct_trees = true;
    remove_duplicate_fonts = false;
    remove_duplicate_streams = false;
-   encoding = Cpdfmetadata.UTF8;
+   encoding = Cpdfmetadata.Stripped;
    scale = 1.;
    copyfontpage = 1;
    copyfontname = None;
@@ -739,7 +739,7 @@ let reset_arguments () =
   args.process_struct_trees <- true;
   args.remove_duplicate_fonts <- false;
   args.remove_duplicate_streams <- false;
-  args.encoding <- Cpdfmetadata.UTF8;
+  args.encoding <- Cpdfmetadata.Stripped;
   args.scale <- 1.;
   args.copyfontpage <- 1;
   args.copyfontname <- None;