[Giovani Akira]

Hello people!

I need a little advice about HTML/PHP editors...
I am a single MAC user inside a giant see of Windows
machines here in the university where I work. Well, at the
truth, here in my town there is only few MACs. Brazil is
completely controled by Micro$hoft...

I am using BB Edit 6.5 to create my webpages, but
as you may know, portuguese have different characters from
english language, using accents. I can INPUT these
characters inside the editor, but when I save the file everything
get messed.

I found out that if I save the files using the encoding MAC ROMAN
my MAC can read the special characters. But the windows not.
I tried many different encoding, but bothing have worked on
windows display.

In the old times I used ALLAIRE HOMESITE, woow, hat a good
editor... it has the option for replace EXTENDED CHARACTERS,
changing ~a to ã ...

Is there a way to do this inside BB Edit?
Is there another good HMTL/PHP editor for MAC?

Thanks for your attention, and sorry for this silly
message. I am a newbie on MAC machines.

(Thanks God for this...
They heard me here and gave me this G4!)

[Ludovic Hirlimann]

Originally posted by Giovani Akira:

I am using BB Edit 6.5 to create my webpages, but
as you may know, portuguese have different characters from
english language, using accents. I can INPUT these
characters inside the editor, but when I save the file everything
get messed.

I found out that if I save the files using the encoding MAC ROMAN
my MAC can read the special characters. But the windows not.
I tried many different encoding, but bothing have worked on
windows display.

Well French and mots ltin countreis have the same problem. I use BBEdit too and use it's find/replace feature to change my native typed � 's by &_e_a_c_u_t_e_; without the _ ....

[Giovani Akira]

Oh yes...

I understand the &_e_acute_; command.
When I write from my mind my text I can use this...

&_a_tilde; &_c_cedil; and so on.

But look, and when I opne a GIANT text file, wrote by
someone else here in the university, just to insert some
new lines?

All text wrote before (correctly for windows and MAc display!!!)
simple get messed! I will lose too much time to keep replacing
of every occurency of special characters!

Hmmm...
Don't know.

Anyway, thanks!
(-:

[D'Espice]

The problem is, that BBEdit does not save the files according to the Unicode standard, which however is required.
The solution for me (sometimes writing german articles) was to purchase the EDU-copy of Dreamweaver MX which handles these situation the way they should be handled. From that moment on, no trouble with Unicode and special characters whatsoever.

Another, cheaper (because for free) solution is the HTML-editor that comes with Omniweb. Get it here: www.omnigroup.com

[Millennium]

I really like Pepper, however there are some serious issues with it.

One, version 4.0 does not run on Jaguar; you'll have to find 3.6 to make it work.

Two -and this is the killer- Pepper is nagware, but the developer is no longer accepting registrations. This makes things quite inconvenient unless you already had a registration prior to Pepper's retirement.

Such a shame. Pepper rocked.