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diff --git a/docs/CONTRIBUTING b/docs/CONTRIBUTING
index e426770790..0b43d67eaa 100644
--- a/docs/CONTRIBUTING
+++ b/docs/CONTRIBUTING
@@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ Text format
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 Use "unix style" line feeds: "LF" only. Do not use "CR+LF".
 
-Use ISO-8859-1 character set, but try to refrain from using any non-ascii
+Use UTF-8 character set, but try to refrain from using any non-ascii
 letters as they will only appear weird in some camps no matter what.
 
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