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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index 098579e11af..4d5d08a0fd5 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 |