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> From: Karl Eichwalder <ke@gnu.franken.de>
> Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 05:06:40 +0200
> 
> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Michael, if you can figure out precisely how this happened, it might
> > lead us to a way to make the Mule features more robust.  Many users
> > might benefit from that.
> 
> Probably the known bug.  The problem is that Emacs sometimes proposes
> to use a "save" encoding to save a buffer; if the user follows Emacs'
> proposal file corruption starts.

If you can show examples of such corruption, please do.  I'm not aware
of any corruption due to encodings Emacs suggests, although it's true
that the result might surprise sometimes, especially if the user
doesn't know what she is doing.

However, surprise and corruption are two different things...