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Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> `preconv' is a new preprocessor (currently in the CVS of groff only)
> which converts man pages in any input encoding to something groff can
> digest.  It supports the GNU Emacs convention for coding tags at the
> beginning of a file but not at the end of a file for the reasons given
> above.

You said this in your very first post and I totally missed it, sorry.
I think this makes the decision a no-brainer.