Escaping quotes does not work

[2manyvcos]

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Affected packages and versions

remark-directive

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Steps to reproduce

It is not possible to escape quotes in attribute, e.g. the following two examples do not work:

:test[content]{a="content with escaped \" quote"}
:test[content]{a='content with escaped \' quote'}

The only way to do this currently is to use ASCII codes:

:test[content]{a="content with escaped " quote"}
:test[content]{a='content with escaped ' quote'}

Expected behavior

Escape sequences should work for quotes.

Actual behavior

The directive is not parsed.

Runtime

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[2manyvcos]

Here is a reproduction example:

https://codesandbox.io/p/sandbox/flamboyant-mestorf-n33ptd?file=%2Fsrc%2Fapp.tsx%3A17%2C4

[wooorm]

This is intentional. Markdown supports character references in lots of places. It never supports C-style escapes. Therefore, it is logical to support character references and not C-style escapes here, too.

ASCII codes

That’s not what those are. Those are character references, as defined by the CM and HTML specs.

[2manyvcos]

Thank you for the clarification.

Even though I am a bit confused, because there is a section mentioning backslash escapes in the CommonMark spec and it is possible to escape the whole directive by adding a backslash before the colon, like described in https://github.com/remarkjs/remark-directive/issues/5#issuecomment-869131256.

Also, the following is valid Markdown:

[url with \] escape](test)

[url with ] escape](test)

It even is supported in the content of directives:

:test[content with \] escape]{a=test}

[wooorm]

Oh that, sorry, I missed what this was about. I modelled the attributes after how attributes work in HTML. So also unquoted ones work. And more character references work than solely in markdown. This means you can copy/paste things.

[2manyvcos]

Oh, I see now! Thank you, that clarified it.