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"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> Shouldn't we disallow saving a file whose coding: says something
> different from the actual encoding?  Is there any situation when such
> a file means anything but trouble when it is visited?

Yes, but anyhow it surely can't be right absolutely to prevent users
saving files.

`coding:' tags aren't the only thing `set-auto-coding' can note.