title: How to "force" a file's ISO-8859-1ness?
body: <p>I remember when I used to develop website in Japan - where there are three different character encodings in currency - the developers had a trick to "force" the encoding of a source file so it would always open in their IDEs in the correct encoding.</p>
  
  <p>What they did was to put a comment at the top of the file containing a Japanese character that <em>only</em> existed in that particular character encoding - it wasn't in any of the others! This worked perfectly.</p>
  
  <p>I remember this because now I have a similar, albeit Anglophone, problem.</p>
  
  <p>I've got some files that MUST be ISO-8859-1 but keep opening in my editor (Bluefish 1.0.7 on Linux) as UTF-8. This isn't normally a problem EXCEPT for pound (£) symbols and whatnot. Don't get me wrong, I can fix the file and save it out again as ISO-8859-1, but I want it to <em>always</em> open as ISO-8859-1 in my editor.</p>
  
  <p>So, are there any sort of character hacks - like I mention above - to do this? Or any other methods?</p>
  
  <p>PS. Unicode advocates / evangelists needn't waste their time trying to convert me because I'm already one of them! This is a rickety older system I've inherited :-(</p>
  
  <p>PPS. Please don't say "use a different editor" because I'm an old fart and set in my ways :-)</p>