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When I browsed MediaWiki (I was thinking of installing that myself)



http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:LocalSettings.php



It says on top there:

Warning: Don't edit this file with Notepad or other text editor that adds byte order marks to files, or you will break your wiki.




I looked into it. You can't edit the MediaWiki php files with regular Notepad because it adds BOM to the file.

So is this a problem when working with all php files?



I found that you can use Notepad++ instead

http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/site.htm



After you install Notepad++

Encoding > Encode in UTF-8 without BOM



(I think that is ok. I am not 100% sure. This stuff is very confusing to me)


What do you guys use ?


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It's becuase when you save with notepad it likes to try to set everything to its own schema; it won't always break things, but it can.

I like EditPlus or Notepad++ myself


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Originally Posted by Gizmo
It's because when you save with notepad it likes to try to set everything to its own schema; it won't always break things, but it can.

I like EditPlus or Notepad++ myself


Ok Gizmo, thanks bro


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