How to set my character coding to 'Western ISO-8859-1' permanently?

I am having a REALLY annoying problem here. I want to set my character encoding to 'Western ISO-8859-1' permanently. I am able to successfully change it for a while but a couple of minutes barely pass and it reverts back to 'Unicode', even if I am on the same page and idle. I need immediate help here, as I am not able to do an urgent task that requires my encoding to be set at 'Western'.

Go to Tools -> Options, click on the tab Content. In the group "Fonts & Colours" click the button Advanced. In the windows that pops up, set the Default Character Encoding to Western (ISO-8859-1).

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