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On Sun, 28 Apr 2002, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> He might be referring to the fact that saving a file with encoding
> foo when the first line says "-*- coding: bar -*-" will lead to
> corruption.

FWIW, this is on my TODO, but it's been there for the last year...

> But of the course the first question (the one RMS asked IIUC) is why
> did Emacs not use iso-2202 despite the -*- coding: -*- tag.

Yes, I agree.