[megasad]

I use BBEdit to make my websites. When I look in the Text Files: Saving preferences, there are many options that I have not bothered to play around with before. However, I would now like to start using them. So, I ask your advice.

1 - Which line breaks should I use? Macintosh, UNIX or DOS/Windows?

2 - Should I use Unicode line breaks?

3 - Which Text Encoding should I use? UTF-8? UTF-16? Mac Roman? Any other?

4 - Should I force a new line at the end of a document?

As I don't fully understand the ramifications of those options, I'd appreciate it if someone could explain the merits of the various options, if not here then via a link to a website that explains. I've tried googling for "website text encoding" but can not find a clear and concise explanation of which encoding / line-breaks combination is the most ideal to use.

Thanks,
Simon

[clam2000]

the web server can deal with most of what you throw at so it shouldn't be to much of a concern. the only problem i've had when saving normally is that php's errors all occur on line 1 (which makes debugging very fun).

windows line breaks are interperted correctly by my linux webserver. Play arround a bit but I thing that if the hosting computer is linux then go with windows, if it is a mac go with mac / unix.

normal line breaks are fine

utf 8 is a worldwide encoding, so it's hard to go wrong with it.

no need really.

the code itself is a lot more important the the formatting, put your code through the w3.org validator and it will help you produce encoding tags for whatever you have it encoded in.

--will