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subr.el Commentary + Code sections

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Message #22 received at 35595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: npostavs <at> gmail.com
Cc: Van L <van <at> scratch.space>, 35595 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#35595: subr.el Commentary + Code sections
Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2019 19:05:10 +0200

npostavs <at> gmail.com writes:

>> +;;; Commentary:
>> +
>>  ;; Beware: while this file has tag `utf-8', before it's compiled, it gets
>>  ;; loaded as "raw-text", so non-ASCII chars won't work right during
>> bootstrap.
>
> Not sure if this really qualifies as "introductory comments that explain
> how the library works."  Also, where it says "has tag `utf-8'" what is
> it referring to?  A coding cookie that was since removed perhaps?

Yup:

commit 166a6556d0ec9926035aa2bce3dc0b0827b447ef
Author: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Date:   Tue Sep 29 01:39:14 2015 +0300

    ; Remove extraneous "coding: utf-8" specifications in Elisp files

So the comment is wrong, and I'll just apply the Code bit from Van's patch.

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