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diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 278e656647..4460528b76 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2014-01-04 Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>
+
+ maint: add a gnulib-local rule to keep non-ascii out of .texi files
+ * cfg.mk (sc_keep_gnulib_texi_files_mostly_ascii): New rule,
+ so that "make sc_maint" will ding anyone who puts non-ascii
+ in any of gnulib's .texi files.
+
2014-01-03 Jim Meyering <meyering@fb.com>
freadable, fwritable, fwriting: declare with the "pure" attribute
diff --git a/cfg.mk b/cfg.mk
index f1bdec103c..5b9456bdef 100644
--- a/cfg.mk
+++ b/cfg.mk
@@ -1,5 +1,17 @@
# This file is used via the maint.mk-using rule in Makefile.
+# This is a gnulib-specific rule to keep non-ascii characters
+# from creeping into our .texi files. There is nothing inherently
+# wrong with e.g., UTF-8 characters in texinfo sources, but here,
+# we had accumulated some non-ascii apostrophes and hyphens, and
+# they were recently replaced with their ascii analogs. This rule
+# should help keep things consistent.
+sc_keep_gnulib_texi_files_mostly_ascii:
+ @prohibit='[^][ a-zA-Z0-9'\''`~!\@#$$%^&*(){}=+";:,./<>?|\_-]' \
+ in_vc_files='\.texi$$' \
+ halt='invalid bytes in gnulib .texi file' \
+ $(_sc_search_regexp)
+
local-checks-to-skip = \
sc_GFDL_version \
sc_GPL_version \