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> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: Daiki Ueno <ueno@unixuser.org>,  pmr@pajato.com,  stephen@xemacs.org,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 21 Sep 2008 09:34:38 -0400
> 
> The only reliable way to do decoding in buffers is by using
> the `destination' argument to decode-coding-region so that you can
> decode from a unibyte buffer into a multibyte buffer.

Why is that the only reliable method, and what do you suggest as the
value of `destination' argument for it to DTRT?