Re: `decode-coding-string' question

[Richard Stallman]

    Say I have a string with various text properties set.  If I then
    apply `decode-coding-string' to it, all the properties are lost.
    Is there a way to transfer properties from ``character beginning''
    (i.e. first character of a number being combined during decoding)
    to the decoded character?

It would be a nice improvement to make, but not trivial.