Setting encoding in Kate

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 06/09/17 16:17, Burkhard Lück wrote:
> Am Montag, 4. September 2017, 22:46:44 CEST schrieb Nikos Chantziaras:
>> Is there a way to mark a file as using a specific encoding? Like some
>> string inside a C comment that Kate recognizes?
> 
> https://docs.kde.org/trunk5/en/applications/katepart/config-variables.html

Alright. So, putting:

   kate: encoding cp-1252

in .kateconfig works, whereas an in-file modeline doesn't.

However, I can't use a .kateconfig for this, since now *all* files in 
the directory are opened with cp-1252 as the encoding, not just the ones 
that actually are.