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@@ -162,6 +162,9 @@ Style Guide
 
 - try to keep mutt as portable as possible.
 
+- special characters should be in utf-8.  If you find remnants
+  from the times when this was an iso-8859-1 source code tree,
+  please feel free to fix them.
 
 Documentation
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@@ -175,6 +178,9 @@ where you may have to add documentation:
   Manual in nroff format (see man(7)), which deals with
   configuration file commands.
 
+- UPDATING includes short documentation of user-visible
+  changes, i.e., any incompatibilities should go here.
+
 Configuration _variables_ are documented directly in init.h.   Note
 that this includes documentation for possibly added format flags!