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    >     But, those are anyway just heuristics; not 100% reliable.
    >     So I think we need a user option to turn it on and off, or
    >     perhaps a user option to select which kind of heuristics.

    > Should we install this option now?

    I can't tell whether or not it's important enough to install
    now because I never encountered a utf-16 file.

Werner sent a message explaining how another program handles
them.  Is it feasible to implement that in Emacs?
Would it be so much of a complication that we should
not install it now?