I’m using the Obsidian app to learn Mandarin, and it creates markdown files. I back it all up to Box.
I came across a problem where I can’t create files with pinyin in the names. Mandarin has a lot of homophones, and I wanted to be able to organise them as they come up.
As an example, take yi. It could be written yī, yí, yǐ, or yì, according to whichever tone it takes. However, I can’t create filenames using any of the variants with a tone as Box sees them all as ‘yi’, telling me I’ve already named a file this.
I was hoping that someone, even if they aren’t using pinyin, might have needed to create names in languages that use diacritics of any other kind that might have generated this conflict.
When I try it doesn’t change the tone mark over the word, but it does append my email address because there’s a naming conflict. If I put a third pinyin with another tone it does the same, but adds a 2 to the end of the email, and so on. This makes a mess within Obsidian.
I don’t have any problem creating file names like this on my PC that is running Windows, which might be taken care of when you install the Chinese keyboard, etc.
If anyone has a solution to help overcome the problem I’d appreciate it.
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