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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2015-09-27 11:30:35 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2015-09-27 11:30:35 +0300 |
| commit | f49e3a2603f249bb2ec281f3eaedd80cbaef2243 (patch) | |
| tree | 18f664d7e58cfff0d6fcae3f672a0320ab55dd4a /CONTRIBUTE | |
| parent | 1ac5a9c20cb22efb398fa18781c6b932dd4e54df (diff) | |
; Mention non-ASCII encoding issues in CONTRIBUTE
* CONTRIBUTE: Document recommendations for encoding non-ASCII
characters in Emacs sources.
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| -rw-r--r-- | CONTRIBUTE | 14 |
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diff --git a/CONTRIBUTE b/CONTRIBUTE index 609ab7acb6..098579e11a 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. |