Subject: Re: bug#21568: [PATCH] Add prettify-symbols-alist for js-mode

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 13:03:48 +0300

> Cc: [email-masked], [email-masked], [email-masked]
> From: Dmitry Gutov <[email-masked]>
> Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 11:50:20 +0300
> 
> On 09/27/2015 11:39 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> > I just added a few recommendations to CONTRIBUTE about that.
> 
> Thank you, but as long as that's true:
> 
> "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."
> 
> ...we really shouldn't bother contributors with that detail

I don't see that as a bother, just as useful information that can do
no harm.