Converting Markdown string to HTML with emojis

[ivancantarino]

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What did you do?

I've inserted a markdown string with some emojis into it and used Down(markdownString: str).toHTML()

The markdown string was something like:

markdownString = """
		# Header 01
		## header 02
		
		**some bold text 0**
		*some italic text 0*
		
		> Blockquote text
		> multilined
		
               text with emojis: 👍😀🔞😈🤢🤖
		"""

What did you expect to happen?

Expected the toHTML() function parsed the emojis, so it would appear inside the WebView.

What happened instead?

The emojis unicode weren't parsed as expected, instead, for the emojis inserted (see above) the output inside the WebView after using the toHTML() function was the following:
(I'm reducing the unnecessary text)

text with emojis: �😀🔞😈🤢🤖

[128keaton]

Okay--I did a bit of investigating on this issue. It looked like the content type wasn't being set properly, but I had to make sure cmark wasn't screwing up the output. First, I built cmark from the latest source and ran your test file through it. It outputted properly in my terminal:

However, outputting to raw HTML rendered it exactly like your example:

Bad content type.

I simply appended this to the HTML file:
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Before rendering in the WebView, I would make sure the content type is set. I don't think we need a change on our end, as we're just spitting out HTML exactly how cmark does it.

[ivancantarino]

So all I should do isto append that tag to the head of the HTML and it should solve the issue?
Thank you for the help. 😉

[128keaton]

@ivan-cantarino correct!