Fix error about "-*-" being mandatory in coding cookies.
diff --git a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
index 21ae111..561ce29 100644
--- a/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
+++ b/Doc/howto/unicode.rst
@@ -410,9 +410,9 @@
The syntax is inspired by Emacs's notation for specifying variables local to a
file. Emacs supports many different variables, but Python only supports
-'coding'. The ``-*-`` symbols indicate that the comment is special; within
-them, you must supply the name ``coding`` and the name of your chosen encoding,
-separated by ``':'``.
+'coding'. The ``-*-`` symbols indicate to Emacs that the comment is special;
+they have no significance to Python but are a convention. Python looks for
+``coding: name`` or ``coding=name`` in the comment.
If you don't include such a comment, the default encoding used will be ASCII.
Versions of Python before 2.4 were Euro-centric and assumed Latin-1 as a default