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                      mode-line-misc-info
                      mode-line-end-spaces))
    #+END_SRC
+** Coding system
+   Prefer the utf-8 coding system globally.  This helps with the issue of
+   magit not correctly staging hunks containing utf-8 characters.
+   See [https://github.com/magit/magit/issues/32]
+   #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp
+     (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)
+   #+END_SRC
 ** Mark handling
    No transient mark is more flexible
    #+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp