different locale based on directory

[Johannes Wiedersich <johannes@physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de>]

Hallo list!

I have a "funny" tex-file (sty and tex) that requires the deprecated
latin1 encoding. (It was originally developed for lusers of another OS).
My system is lenny and utf-8.

Is there a way to configure my editor [1] to use the latin1 encoding for
certain files or directories and utf-8 for all the rest?

I wouldn't want to bother to change settings manually each time I open a
file...

Thanks,
Johannes

[1] I use kile, but if there are better ones to do the trick...