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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index 609ab7acb6b..098579e11af 100644 --- a/CONTRIBUTE +++ b/CONTRIBUTE @@ -201,6 +201,20 @@ then exclude that commit from the merge to trunk. ** Other process information +*** Non-ASCII characters in Emacs files + +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. 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. + +*** Useful files in the admin/ directory + See all the files in admin/notes/* . In particular, see admin/notes/newfile, see admin/notes/repo. |