What is the correct Unicode UTF8 settings for saving a structured keyword list?

[Pogo33]

It appears that I have created problems for my structured keyword list by not having my text editor (TextWrangler) saving the file correctly for Photo Mechanics. Text Wrangle has the following options:

Unicode UTF-8
Unicode UTF-8, No BOM
Unicode UTF-16
Unicode UTF-16, No BOM
Unicode UTF-16, Little-Endian
Unicode UTF-16, Little-Endian, No BOM

As well as sellecting Line Break options for

Unix
OSX
Windows

I am using OSX 10.5.2

Also, when I save the file as a Unicode file, is it ok to have a txt extention or should it have a UTF extension>

Sincerely,

Earl Robicheaux

[Kirk Baker]

Earl,

It appears that I have created problems for my structured keyword list by not having my text editor (TextWrangler) saving the file correctly for Photo Mechanics. Text Wrangle has the following options:

Unicode UTF-8
Unicode UTF-8, No BOM
Unicode UTF-16
Unicode UTF-16, No BOM
Unicode UTF-16, Little-Endian
Unicode UTF-16, Little-Endian, No BOM

As well as sellecting Line Break options for

Unix
OSX
Windows

I am using OSX 10.5.2

Also, when I save the file as a Unicode file, is it ok to have a txt extention or should it have a UTF extension?

Use either of the following two formats:

Unicode UTF-8
Unicode UTF-8, No BOM

A ".txt" extension is fine.

-Kirk

[Pogo33]

Interesting, I was using the Unicode UTF-8 No BOM when I received the weird question marks?  the Unicode UTF-8 seams better. How about the line break; Unix or OSX?

[Kirk Baker]

Interesting, I was using the Unicode UTF-8 No BOM when I received the weird question marks?  the Unicode UTF-8 seams better.

All it takes is editing the file with accented characters in an editor that doesn't understand UTF-8 encoding and it will likely destroy the UTF-8 data streams.  When you later open up such a damaged file in a program that handles UTF-8 properly it will show the file as best it can but some characters will be changed to something unexpected and will have to be repaired manually.

How about the line break; Unix or OSX?

It doesn't matter to Photo Mechanic.

-Kirk