I've just realised that I'm probably wrong about the workaround breaking saving in Internet Explorer.
Could somebody with access to IE try downloading a fresh copy of TiddlyWiki, adding the beacon as described above, and then testing whether saving still works? Many thanks, Jeremy On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 5:03 PM, Jeremy Ruston <[email protected]>wrote: > What abaut adding the Workaround in the distributed version...It is not so >> easy for newbies to fit it in correctly... >> >> > The problem is that the workaround discussed above breaks saving > functionality in Internet Explorer because the implementation requires the > entire file outside of the store area to be plain ASCII. Another possible > workaround is to put the beacon meta tag in the MarkupPreHead tiddler, > which avoids breaking IE, but again means that the fix can't be > retrospectively applied to old TW files that have a MarkupPreHead tiddler > already. > > Anyhow, I'm delighted that people are using it, and will endeavour to > figure out a better fix. For the moment I've added a link to this > discussion to the TiddlyWiki in the Sky page. > > Best wishes > > Jeremy > > > >> Thanks again all Tiddly-enthusasts for your never resting work an a >> happy new year >> Jan >> >> >> Am 03.01.2013 11:58, schrieb Jeremy Ruston: >> >> Hi >> >> Sorry for my belated response to your previous post. >> >> I believe that the underlying issue is still that Dropbox itself tries >> to figure out the character encoding of HTML files by sniffing the first >> few hundred bytes of the content of the file. If it doesn't find any UTF-8 >> byte sequences then it serves the file as ASCII. >> >> The workaround is to ensure that there are UTF-8 characters near the >> top of the HTML file, which can typically be accomplished by adding a meta >> tag like this to the top of the file in a text editor: >> >> <meta name="utf8beacon" content="éçñøåá—" /> >> >> The trouble is that we can't currently add that beacon into the default >> distribution of TiddlyWiki because it happens to also break saving in >> Internet Explorer. >> >> Can you try to add that meta tag to one of your 2.7 files and see how >> you get on? >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy >> >> >> On Thu, Jan 3, 2013 at 10:37 AM, Shash <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I am using TW with Dropbox. I had posted a few messages before about the >>> weird behavior of opening TW with TWITS app in Dropbox. After working out a >>> bit I could notice that my TW file with version 2.6.5 opens smoothly when >>> opening using TWITS app but the upgraded file (to version 2.7 and above) >>> doesnot. >>> >>> I am not sure whether there are others who are facing this problem. >>> Any suggestions can help. >>> >>> Also I would like to know if there are any browser dependencies for >>> opening the TW with TWITS app.Thanks! >>> >>> Regards. >>> Shash. >>> -- >>> 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/-/otfWfIjvwfkJ. >>> 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. >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Jeremy Ruston >> mailto:[email protected] >> -- >> 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. >> >> >> -- >> 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. >> > > > > -- > Jeremy Ruston > mailto:[email protected] > -- Jeremy Ruston mailto:[email protected] -- 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.
