[Emacs-diffs] master e809c39 1/3: ; * CONTRIBUTE: Tweak the "Non-ASCII characters in Emacs files" section

[Dmitry Gutov]

branch: master
commit e809c39a827ff5528ad7f05f456ff3ba7082133b
Author: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>
Commit: Dmitry Gutov <address@hidden>

    ; * CONTRIBUTE: Tweak the "Non-ASCII characters in Emacs files" section
---
 CONTRIBUTE |    8 ++++----
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE
index 098579e..4d5d08a 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.
 
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