I was trying to type some accented Ancient Greek characters into Obsidian and having some issues. I ordinarily have two ways of doing this, neither of which work in Obsidian. First, I use the “Greek (polytonic)” keyboard layout, which turns some of the keys (; ’ [ ]) into “dead keys”. Typing a dead key and then a letter is supposed to produce the accented letter, but in Obsidian the dead keys seem to do nothing.
Second, I mapped my Right Ctrl to a “compose key”, so that typing the sequence: Right Ctrl, ', α should produce ά. On Obsidian, the compose key does nothing and I just get 'α. (Maybe I should mention that this method is also supposed to work for Latin characters with diacritics, like é and ç; I also can’t type these this way in Obsidian.)
The characters themselves are ordinary Unicode characters and can be pasted into Obsidian with no problem. So if nothing else, I can write in a different text editor and paste it into Obsidian, but obviously it’d be nice not to have to do this.
Things I have tried
Based on some other posts I saw on this forum, I tried turning off “Auto pair brackets” and “Auto pair Markdown syntax”. I ordinarily use Vim key bindings, but tried turning those off too. None of this fixed the issue.
What I’m trying to do
I’d like to fix the problem, or at least understand why it’s happening! I know it’s pretty niche, but I wonder if anyone else has had similar problems typing other accented languages (French? Vietnamese?), and if so, whether you’ve found a decent workaround.