#1

Additional to English, I am using documents in languages with accentuated characters (Spanish, French). I have copied a text in markdown from a Spanish text file and pasted it into Obsidian. However, the accentuated characters are replaced by question marks. Is there a way to import such files into Obsidian without loosing the accentuated characters?
Many thanks!

#2

Hi there! I have been copying text with accented characters into Obsidian without any problem - e.g., “¿Dónde estás?” <- I can copy and paste that into Obsidian 0.76 without any issues.

Perhaps you can provide us with some more information, so we can reproduce the problem - for example, what OS you use (Windows, Mac, Linux), what version of Obsidian you’re using, and what app you’re trying to copy from.

#3

Thanks for the reply and apologies because actually it doesn’t happen with a copy-paste but when I drag the file from File Explorer (Windows 10) to Obsidian (v0.7.4):

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The same happens if I drag the file not directly into the Obsidian application but in the Obsidian folder in File Explorer: accentuated characters are lost.

However, contrary to what I wrote in the first message, I tried a copy-paste and it worked perfectly.

Since I have many of these files, I was hoping I could just drag them all in the Obsidian folder in Windows. But if the copy-paste works better than nothing.

Thanks again

#4

This may have something to do with the way the files were saved originally, in the original application. If the file is saved using utf-8 (Unicode) encoding, Obsidian should be fine importing it.

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