diff --git a/beets/config_default.yaml b/beets/config_default.yaml
index 1bc1d3a9b..9b3b9216e 100644
--- a/beets/config_default.yaml
+++ b/beets/config_default.yaml
@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ threaded: yes
 timeout: 5.0
 per_disc_numbering: no
 verbose: 0
-terminal_encoding: utf8
+terminal_encoding:
 original_date: no
 id3v23: no
 
diff --git a/docs/changelog.rst b/docs/changelog.rst
index 06da8f370..3c4cf6aba 100644
--- a/docs/changelog.rst
+++ b/docs/changelog.rst
@@ -23,7 +23,8 @@ Little fixes and improvements:
   mode. :bug:`1398`
 * Beets should now be better at guessing the appropriate output encoding on
   Windows. (Specifically, the console output encoding is guessed separately
-  from the encoding for command-line arguments.) :bug:`1419`
+  from the encoding for command-line arguments.) A bug was also fixed where
+  beets would ignore the locale settings and use UTF-8 by default. :bug:`1419`
 
 1.3.11 (April 5, 2015)
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