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> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Cc: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>, larsi@gnus.org,
> 	emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2019 16:03:54 +0300
> 
> But why does 
> iconv -f ISO8859-8 -t UTF-8 also work?

Because, as Andreas points out, the characters in the file have the
same encoding in both ISO8859-8 and CP1255.