Refs #27795 -- Removed force_text from templatize function

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/django/utils/translation/template.py b/django/utils/translation/template.py
index c471dd489f..3659fab3b6 100644
--- a/django/utils/translation/template.py
+++ b/django/utils/translation/template.py
@@ -6,7 +6,6 @@ from django.template.base import (
     TOKEN_BLOCK, TOKEN_COMMENT, TOKEN_TEXT, TOKEN_VAR, TRANSLATOR_COMMENT_MARK,
     Lexer,
 )
-from django.utils.encoding import force_text
 
 from . import TranslatorCommentWarning, trim_whitespace
 
@@ -36,13 +35,12 @@ plural_re = re.compile(r"""^\s*plural$""")
 constant_re = re.compile(r"""_\(((?:".*?")|(?:'.*?'))\)""")
 
 
-def templatize(src, origin=None, charset='utf-8'):
+def templatize(src, origin=None):
     """
     Turn a Django template into something that is understood by xgettext. It
     does so by translating the Django translation tags into standard gettext
     function invocations.
     """
-    src = force_text(src, charset)
     out = StringIO('')
     message_context = None
     intrans = False