Anchor link for headers with "and"

[lifeparticle]

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Create a markdown file with:

   ## Mention people and teams
   ## Reference issues and pull requests

2. View it on GitHub.

Expected: #mention-people-and-teams #reference-issues-and-pull-requests

Actual: #mention-people-andteams #reference-issues-and-pullrequests

Impact: Broken navigation links.

[lifeparticle]

https://docs.github.com/en/repositories/managing-your-repositorys-settings-and-features/customizing-your-repository/about-readmes#auto-generated-table-of-contents-for-readme-files

[lifeparticle]

curl -L \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  https://api.github.com/markdown \
  -d '{"text":"# Reference issues and pull requests \n # Mention people and teams", "mode": "markdown"}'

<div class="markdown-heading"><h1 class="heading-element">Reference issues and pull requests</h1><a id="user-content-reference-issues-and-pull-requests" class="anchor" aria-label="Permalink: Reference issues and pull requests" href="#reference-issues-and-pull-requests"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a></div>

<div class="markdown-heading"><h1 class="heading-element">Mention people and teams</h1><a id="user-content-mention-people-and-teams" class="anchor" aria-label="Permalink: Mention people and teams" href="#mention-people-and-teams"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a></div>

markdown api

[MajorKeen]

Looks to be a non-issue it was caused by the introduction of the ASCII character code 160 the non-breaking space. When generating the anchor navigation links, GitHub's markdown parser converts spaces to hyphens. In this particular case it was not happening due to the space character not being the standard ASCII space character code 30

DEC	OCT	HEX	BIN	Symbol	HTML Number	HTML Name	Description
32	040	20	00100000	SP	\		Space
160	240	A0	10100000	NBSP	\	\	Non-breaking space

[MajorKeen]

Other spaces characters to look out for but in the Unicode space are:

Code	HTML Entity	UTF-8 Encoding	UTF-16 Encoding	UTF-32 Encoding
U+2003	\  \  \	0xE2 0x80 0x83	0x2003	0x00002003
U+2002		0xE2 0x80 0x82	0x2002	0x00002002

A list of other possible spaces in Unicode can be found at the below link: https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/category/Zs

[lifeparticle]

@MajorKeen many thanks for your detailed explanation, it make sense now. I will try to handle these special cases in the TOC generator.

[lifeparticle]

curl -L \
  -X POST \
  -H "Accept: application/vnd.github+json" \
  -H "X-GitHub-Api-Version: 2022-11-28" \
  https://api.github.com/markdown \
  -d '{"text":"# Reference issues and pull requests \n # Mention people and teams", "mode": "markdown"}'

<div class="markdown-heading"><h1 class="heading-element">Reference issues and pull requests</h1><a id="user-content-reference-issues-and-pullrequests" class="anchor" aria-label="Permalink: Reference issues and pull requests" href="#reference-issues-and-pullrequests"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a></div>

<div class="markdown-heading"><h1 class="heading-element">Mention people and teams</h1><a id="user-content-mention-people-and-teams" class="anchor" aria-label="Permalink: Mention people and teams" href="#mention-people-and-teams"><span aria-hidden="true" class="octicon octicon-link"></span></a></div>