NomarCub

What is this other plugin?

You might just need to use the API of [this plugin](https://github.com/aidenlx/obsidian-icon-shortcodes).

Adding alphanumeric characters fixes it. Auto-completing a link to the heading fails (strips the `?`), but I can make a manual link to it just fine (e.g. like this: `[[#?]]`)....

I looked around and didn't see a similar thread in the forums, so I created a new one. See [ Headings with special characters have broken links and renaming](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/headings-with-special-characters-have-broken-links-and-renaming/40707).

Apparently, this is not a bug, but a feature. So I made a feature request too: [Support special characters in headings for linking](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/support-special-characters-in-headings-for-linking/40724). Given that there's no official Obsidian support,...

As it turns out, it's not all non alphanumeric characters, only "punctuation characters" get stripped. See [the original bug thread](https://forum.obsidian.md/t/headings-with-special-characters-have-broken-links-and-renaming/40707/7) on the forum.

With the new release ([0.5.22](https://github.com/blacksmithgu/obsidian-dataview/releases/tag/0.5.22)) this completely freezes Obsidian. Please reopen this issue.

I know I can use `file.link`. But I'd still like to get this fixed. Especially now that typing this makes the whole app freeze completely, only because I didn't get...

`GROUP BY file.tasks` is also very compute heavy and yields incomprehensible output, don't know if it's related.

It sounds like `GROUP BY file.link` or `GROUP BY section` at the end of your query would be enough.