gedit's default save option

[Kush Singh]

Hi all,

How does one save a new document in iso-8859-1 encoding (instead of 
utf-8)  by default? At present i have  tried the following

1 trying to change the settings from gconf via Applications-->System 
Tools-->configuration editor-->apps-->gedit-2

but that has not helped me or maybe i don't know the exact way.

2 A search on wiki.ubuntu.com did not yield any results.

3 i tried to get an answer from irc.gnome.org#gedit but the people there 
were not responding, nor was there any traffic. It looked like a dead 
channel unlike irc.freenode.net #ubuntu

Thanks for any help.

Kussh