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@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ review them more effectively and/or individually.
* **Use UTF-8**
* For translations (or EN articles with non-ASCII characters) please ensure
your file is UTF-8 encoded.
- * Try to leave out the byte-order-mark at the start of the file (in Vim, use
+ * Leave out the byte-order-mark (BOM) at the start of the file (in Vim, use
`:set nobomb`).
* You can check if the file contains a BOM on Linux/Unix systems by running
`file language.html.markdown` You will see this if it uses a BOM:
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Other fields:
*tool* or *Algorithms & Data Structures*. Defaults to *language* if omitted.
* **filename**: The filename for this article's code. It will be fetched, mashed
together, and made downloadable.
- * For non-English articles, *filename* should have a language-specific
+ * For non-English articles, *filename* should have a language-specific
suffix.
* **lang**: For translations, the human language this article is in. For
categorization, mostly.
@@ -76,7 +76,11 @@ lang: ep-ep
*--
```
-### Should I add myself as a Contributor?
+### Syntax highlighter
+
+[Rouge](https://github.com/rouge-ruby/rouge/wiki/List-of-supported-languages-and-lexers) is used for syntax highlighting.
+
+### Should I add myself as a contributor?
If you want to add yourself to contributors, keep in mind that contributors get
equal billing, and the first contributor usually wrote the whole article. Please