Unicode-Problems

[Jan Johannpeter]

Since four weeks my german characters are exchanged with characters that
look like Hindi if I am viewing my site with an Iphone. Has Anyone else
encountered UnicodeProblems?
Is this an I-phone-Issue. Or could it be it a problem of Dropbox? Is
there a fix?
Thanks for feedback Jan

[Jeremy Ruston]

This does indeed sound like a known problem: viewing an HTML file from Dropbox via an http URL doesn't always correctly detect the character set of the document. On a desktop browser you can use the browser menu to override the character encoding to UTF-8, which will make it display correctly. It isn't possible to do that on iPhone, however.

I'm exploring solutions to this issue, but if you want a quick workaround, try opening your TiddlyWiki file in a text editor, and then find the line that reads:

TiddlyWiki created by Jeremy Ruston, (jeremy [at] osmosoft [dot] com)

Insert a new line before that one that contains a bunch of random unicode characters. For example:

íntéátioøç`ñ

Then save the file and try opening it again from Dropbox. These extra characters appearing near the top of the file should cause Dropbox to correctly identify the character set. Let me know how you get on,

Best wishes

Jeremy

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[Jan Johannpeter]

Hello Jeremy. Thanks for your tip.

I did insert the unicode characters as you can see below.

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
<meta name="copyright" content="
äöüßéèâ

TiddlyWiki created by Jeremy Ruston, (jeremy [at] osmosoft [dot] com)

So far the result was different Unicode Characters but still not the correct ones (1/4 instead of ü)... an a new plugin-error. Should i put the characters before the copyright tag?

kind regards Jan

Am 21.10.2012 23:54, schrieb Jeremy Ruston:

This does indeed sound like a known problem: viewing an HTML file from Dropbox via an http URL doesn't always correctly detect the character set of the document. On a desktop browser you can use the browser menu to override the character encoding to UTF-8, which will make it display correctly. It isn't possible to do that on iPhone, however.

I'm exploring solutions to this issue, but if you want a quick workaround, try opening your TiddlyWiki file in a text editor, and then find the line that reads:

TiddlyWiki created by Jeremy Ruston, (jeremy [at] osmosoft [dot] com)

Insert a new line before that one that contains a bunch of random unicode characters. For example:

íntéátioøç`ñ

Then save the file and try opening it again from Dropbox. These extra characters appearing near the top of the file should cause Dropbox to correctly identify the character set. Let me know how you get on,

Best wishes

Jeremy

On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 10:05 PM, Jan Johannpeter <johan...@web.de> wrote:

Since four weeks my german characters are exchanged with characters that look like Hindi  if I am viewing my site with an Iphone. Has Anyone else encountered UnicodeProblems?
Is this an I-phone-Issue. Or could it be it a problem of Dropbox? Is there a fix?
Thanks for feedback Jan

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[Helge]

Same here, did not work. The Dropbox app just shows different characters but not the correct ones as Jan already reported.

I'll post this in the Dropbox forum, maybe someone there will know how to fix it or will even make changes to the DB app to accomodate for unicode characters.

Helge.

[Helge]

Ok, while looking at the forum I found your post there, Jeremy - of course you already did that! :-)

Well, I'll try adding more unicodey characters and see if it works.

Helge.

[Helge]

With the new 2.7.0 beta it did work with the following line of characters:

íéátioøç`ñ—†º⁋

Thanks again for the advice!

Helge.

[Jan Johannpeter]

Hello, By chance I foung another fix:
Put your strange Characters in the Splashscreen. Miraculously it works...Now you will just have to look for a catchy phrase containing these characters,or make them disappear in Color of the Background.

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