diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index be8856849b3..534da15a379 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -55,6 +55,10 @@
                 pattern=r'(Python #|bpo-)(?P<python>\d+)',
                 url='https://bugs.python.org/issue{python}',
             ),
+            dict(
+                pattern=r'\bpython/cpython#(?P<cpython>\d+)',
+                url='{GH}/python/cpython/issues/{cpython}',
+            ),
             dict(
                 pattern=r'Interop #(?P<interop>\d+)',
                 url='{GH}/pypa/interoperability-peps/issues/{interop}',
diff --git a/newsfragments/4265.feature.rst b/newsfragments/4265.feature.rst
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..2136881bf9d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/newsfragments/4265.feature.rst
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+Explicitly use ``encoding="locale"`` for ``.pth`` files whenever possible,
+to  reduce :obj:`EncodingWarnings`.
+This avoid errors with UTF-8 (see discussion in python/cpython#77102).