I’m not sure if this is new or if I just haven’t been very observant, but I’ve recently noticed that certain character combinations are rendered as special symbols in code blocks (regardless of viewing mode). For example, typing “!=” results in the proper mathematical not-equals sign with a slash th…

Thank you, that was it. Sorry for the duplicate topic, I guess I didn’t see that one because I was searching with the context of code blocks.

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ariehen March 22, 2024, 2:17pm 2

Maybe this?

Special characters are being merged? Help

That most often comes from font ligatures. I see the same in the Sandbox on Windows 11. Whatever the default monospace font Obsidian is using has those. I don’t see it on macOS. If you change Settings > Appearance → Monospace font to a different monospace font without ligatures, it should be fine. I randomly picked Source Code Pro (not sure if that’s in Windows by default) and the => weren’t combined in the code block.

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