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Ted Zlatanov wrote:

 
> I often have to open mangled files with mixed-up encodings; it's
> convenient to set the coding-system after I look at the text, and only
> apply it to a region.
> 

Uhm.

M-x recode-region 

also exists (at least in CVS emacs, no idea when it was introduced).