File Formats

All scripts contributed to PEAR must:

• Be stored as ASCII text

• Use ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 character encoding. The encoding may be declared using declare(encoding = 'utf-8'); at the top of the file.

• Be Unix formatted

  "Unix formatted" means two things:

  1) Lines must end only with a line feed (LF). Line feeds are represented as ordinal 10, octal 012 and hex 0A. Do not use carriage returns (CR) like Macintosh computers do or the carriage return/line feed combination (CRLF) like Windows computers do.

  2) There should be one line feed after the closing PHP tag (?>). This means that when the cursor is at the very end of the file, it should be one line below the closing PHP tag.