From e809c39a827ff5528ad7f05f456ff3ba7082133b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitry Gutov Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 22:03:22 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] ; * CONTRIBUTE: Tweak the "Non-ASCII characters in Emacs files" section --- CONTRIBUTE | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index 098579e11a..4d5d08a0fd 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -208,10 +208,10 @@ 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. And even for *.el -files, having an explicit encoding specification facilitates correct -display of non-ASCII characters when the file is visited in older -Emacs versions. +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. *** Useful files in the admin/ directory -- 2.39.2