[TxMt] Problem converting markdown pre-blocks with accented characters

[Allan Odgaard]

On 9. Oct 2006, at 22:15, Bert Fitié wrote:

> [...] and I'm losing one space in the first line when I use my name  
> in the accented version; in the second line using my name in the  
> non-accented version I don't lose anything.

hmm… yes, Markdown still does tabs to spaces for pre-formatted text.

This really is a Markdown problem (as that is the program which  
converts your tabs), but I bet they would say that this is a user  
problem, as Markdown is not encoding aware, and so couldn’t really  
know about multi-byte sequences.

I can ask at the Markdown list, what their view is on this. We can of  
course do tabs to spaces before sending the text to Markdown, but  
then we are deviating from the “standard”, i.e. if you test in  
TextMate, then post to your blog as Markdown, the result will not be  
the same.