[Templates] Unicode Line Separator support

[Mark Mills]

Bill Moseley wrote:
> This is more of a Perl question, but I've got utf8 templates and
> someone is using BB Edit and SubEthaEdit to create the templates.  I'm
> not familiar with BB Edit or SubEthaEdit.
>
> They have been creating templates fine, but today created one and
> their editor used U+2028 instead of new lines.  Perl sees those as
> matchings \s but it doesn't seem to match \n.
>
> The problem, of course, is there's a comment in the template and since
> it's all one line everything after the comment is ignored.
>
> I'm curious if anyone else has come across this.  Google finds
> discussions of this issue related to Perl but I'm not entirely clear
> if U+2028 (and 2029) should be considered newlines.
>
> And with respect to TT, should it do anything different than Perl in
> dealing with this character.  Such as:
>
>     s/\x{2028}/\n/g;
>
> Which might be a bit expensive in general.  Or maybe there's away to make
> perl see that as a \n that I'm not aware of.
>
> Finally, anyone know BB Edit?  The person claims that they are editing
> files like always before but not for some reason it's using the Line
> Separator instead of \n.
>   
I recall being able to turn on and off the use of the Unicode line 
separator. But I don't have access to a box with BBEdit anymore. :(

I think that BBEdit picks up the first line separator in a file and uses 
that everywhere from then on... It might be as easy as giving them a 
file template to work from rather than starting with a blank file.

--mark