Hi, thanks both of you for looking into this (even going so far as installing Autokey - that's dedication!)
not sure where we're at now with this, but here's the file and a screenshot of the original and what it looks like in the TW: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2161814/10%2009%2015%20centurion http://dl.dropbox.com/u/2161814/filedrop%20example.png On Oct 19, 11:43 am, Eric Shulman <[email protected]> wrote: > > > it *seems* the issue is reading and interpreting the file - i.e. with > > > FileDropPlugin somewhere. > > > I've just confirmed this by creating a file with some Unicode characters > > in Vim, taking Autokey out of the equation (should've done this from the > > start, sigh). > > FileDropPlugin uses the *core* loadFile() function to read the content > > Here's the relevant section of code from the plugin: > ---------------------- > var txt=''; var fmt=co.txtFileDropLinkFormat.unescapeLineBreaks(); > if (co.chkFileDropLink) txt > +=fmt.format([name,url,path,relpath,size,when,now,who]); > if (co.chkFileDropContent) { > var out=loadFile(path); var lim=co.txtFileDropDataLimit; > txt+=co.txtFileDropDataLimit?out.substr(0,lim):out; > if (size>lim) txt+='\n----\nfilesize ('+size+')' > +' is larger than FileDrop limit ('+lim+')...\n' > +'additional content has been omitted';} > > store.saveTiddler(null,title,txt,co.txtUserName,now,newtags); > ------------------------ > > As you can see, there's nothing particularly special about the way the > plugin reads the file content and writes it to a tiddler. This > *suggests* that this might be a core problem with file I/O (uh oh!) > > -e -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.

