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On Gnome you only have 1 setting that controls all format related things.
On KDE Plasma you have granual control. And it seems like the ‘Region’ setting is what’s causing the problem there. Even if you set it to ‘default.UTF-8’ it still causes issues. It has to be set to ‘en_US.UTF-8’.
But this seems to be a more general linux/electron issue, not a distro or desktop enviroment specific thing.
AS A TEST. I fully reinstalled manjaro but select Dutch as my language this time.
Interestingly enough. That works fine. (double-checked, it did automatically set the format settings to nl_BE automatically)
Changing it to American English doesn’t break it.
And changing it back to nl_BE again also doesn’t break it.
@Thibaultmol I could reproduce it! The interface in KDE to change regional settings has changed however, and when I changed the settings to American English, I saw no changes. I had to modify /etc/locale.conf to manually set everything to en_US.UTF-8 to make it work. Thanks for investigating!
If anyone on flatpak is looking for a quick fix for this: Edit the Exec command in ~/.local/share/flatpak/exports/share/applications/md.obsidian.Obsidian.desktop and add an --env=LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 after the run command.
I was a bit surprise that my recent bug could be related to another one opened months ago, because before updating yesterday everything was working fine in my vault which contains a lot of image with non-ascii names. I tried changing my locales and many other things, but the issue was still there… then I decided to uninstall Obsidian from the snapstore and re-install it with the deb package, as it was before. Now the images in my vault show up.
If any one is looking for a quick fix, from my tests: the snap version triggers issue, but not the deb package one.
Yes. I copied the pdf over into the sandbox at ~/snap/obsidian/21/.config/obsidian/Obsidian Sandbox/ and tried to embed it. Same result.
Expected result
The pdf is displayed
Actual result
The pdf viewer shows no content and 0 pages.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.4.16
Installer version: v1.4.16
Operating system: #101-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 14 13:30:08 UTC 2023 5.15.0-91-generic
Login status: not logged in
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Legacy editor: off
Base theme: dark
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: on
RECOMMENDATIONS:
none
I clicked on »Sandbox Vault« but nothing changed — same output.
nix package and flatpak on fedora 39 with btrfs are also involved. The letters which caused problems for me so far are: á é ő ö. Changing them to ascii comatible ones (a,e,o) solves the issue.
on my os every language configuration are set to en_US.UTF-8.
I have this problem with the snap-package as well. I use Kubuntu 23.10. If I use the flatpak, everything works. The vault is synced with the obsidian sync.
In my case the german umlaut “ü” is in the path.
