Use character as is instead of entity for converted typographical punctuation.
I have a deep dislike of entities of any kind, be them HTML,
hex, unicode or whatever. With UTF-8 encoding being declared with a
meta tag (and nowadays why would not anyone), entities
become superfluous and serve exclusively to hinder HTML code
readability and editability.
Marked seems to use Unicode entities for some autoconverted
typographical punctuation, at least for em/en dashes and
single/double quotes. Note that it does respect the real characters
if they are entered manually, so it is not like it is protecting
the text content from being mangled if a meta tag
declares an inappropriate encoding (or none at all for that
matter).
Please, make Marked convert to the real characters instead of the entities.
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Support Staff 1 Posted by Brett on 25 Sep, 2011 01:47 AM
It's my opinion that HTML isn't designed to be readable. The conversions ensure compatibility across the widest range of browsers.
That being said, it's not something Marked can control. I use the standard multimarkdown PEG implementation and this is a feature that has no way to disable without turning off all typographic functions entirely. If you would like to see a flag added for this, please contact Fletcher Penney, author of MultiMarkdown, by filing a ticket on github.
Brett closed this discussion on 25 Sep, 2011 01:47 AM.