I was able to upgrade my TiddlyWiki to 2.6.6 using the instructions in this post:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/vxwzWg8GV6o/0zE582IUXncJ The file now seems to be UTF-8. Chuck On Thursday, November 29, 2012 3:07:23 PM UTC-6, Chuck Bearden wrote: > > Hi Jeremy, > > The TiddlyWiki I'm using is a 2.6.5 (October 6, 2011) that I've been > editing through several FF versions. > > I've tested with an empty 2.6.5 and an empty 2.6.6, and the problem seems > to affect only the 2.6.5 TiddlyWiki. I pasted identical text (including 'ü' > '…', and some polytonic Greek) into each and saved them, then read the > files into Python variables as strings. When I try to decode the 2.6.5 file > as UTF-8, it throws an exception. Encoding the 2.6.5 as Latin-1 as well as > the 2.6.6 as Latin-1 or UTF-8 works fine. Those are tiddlers that have only > ever been edited under FF17 with TiddlyFox. > > I just discovered the Upgrade option Backstage. The Upgrade area is still > visible with the "Loading core code" notice. It has created what appears to > be a backup file, and there are differences between the empty.html and the > empty.pre-core*.html files, but the Upgrade screen never goes away and the > version info remains the same. Is this expected? > > Thanks for all your work! > Chuck > > On Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:47:52 PM UTC-6, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> Hi Chuck >> >> There have been some reports of character encoding issues when running >> under Ubuntu, but nothing I've been able to pin down until now. >> >> Do you get the mis-encoding when using the latest TiddlyWiki downloaded >> from tiddlywiki.com? What about if you use a copy of 2.6.5 from >> tiddlywiki.com/archive? >> >> Many thanks >> >> Jeremy >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> [email protected] >> >> >> On 29 Nov 2012, at 19:40, Chuck Bearden <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Many thanks to Jeremy Ruston for the TiddlyFox extension. I have a >> question about it. >> >> I run Ubuntu 11.10, and of course FF gets upgraded out from under me. The >> latest upgrade to 17 left me unable to save changes to TiddlyWikis, even >> with the special edits in prefs.js. I installed TiddlyFox and I can save >> changes again. >> >> However, it appears that the encoding of the TiddlyWiki has been changed >> after saving from UTF-8 to Latin-1. It could be due to some change in FF, >> but my initial suspicion is that it is a TiddlyFox thing. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Thanks, >> Chuck >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TiddlyWiki" group. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/-/2P9PR2UaErMJ. >> 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. >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/tiddlywiki/-/AEwgv8ePftcJ. 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.
