-If you introduce non-ASCII characters into Emacs source files, it is a
-good idea to add a 'coding' cookie to the file to state its encoding.
-Please use the UTF-8 encoding unless it cannot do the job for some
-good reason. As of Emacs 24.4, it is no longer necessary to have
-explicit 'coding' cookies in *.el files if they are encoded in UTF-8,
-but other files need them even if encoded in UTF-8. However, if
-an *.el file is intended for use with older Emacs versions (e.g. if
-it's also distributed via ELPA), having an explicit encoding
-specification is still a good idea.
+If you introduce non-ASCII characters into Emacs source files, use the
+UTF-8 encoding unless it cannot do the job for some good reason.
+Although it is generally a good idea to add 'coding:' cookies to
+non-ASCII source files, cookies are not needed in UTF-8-encoded *.el
+files intended for use only with Emacs version 24.5 and later.