Notepad Creates Errors when working with PHP

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 ?

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

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

Weird stuff