I'm using vim. How do I set the encoding of a perl program I save?

Better yet, if I remove the string from my program and move it into a text file, how do I type a latin-1 character in the text file, and how do I save the text file as a latin-1 file?

Edit: Ok, I figured out how to type the character: my character palette has two buttons, a Unicode button and an Other Encodings button. When I switch to Other Encodings and select ISO-8859-1, the character codes listed on the left of the character palette change. I checked everything with a hex editor too. Originally, UTF-8 encodings were entered in the text file. So I can get everything to work when the string is in a text file. I guess that is good enough.

In reply to Re^4: encoding question by 7stud
in thread encoding question by 7stud

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