Characters " " inside Code Block instead of space

[yoric-m]

I'm a new Showdown user, experimenting the CLI tool to convert my markdown pages into static html files for my blog. I'm very happy with it so far. However, I just stumbled upon a Gotcha while copy/pasting my directory structure inside a block of code (using the triple backticks).

Does someone knows why the rendering with Showdown is like this:

tree
├── folder1
│   └── a.txt
└── folder2
    └── b.txt

While it is like this in other markdown to html converter (and also here on Github):

tree
├── folder1
│   └── a.txt
└── folder2
    └── b.txt

It looks like Showdown is putting   inside the <pre><code> tag instead of   to render the space character.

I'm really not sure if I'm misusing it or if it's a bug. Does anyone one has an idea about it?

[tivie]

Bug confirmed.

The input text has non-breaking spaces inside the code block which get converted to the correspondent html entity  . However, then the code block is encoded again, changing & to & resulting in that weird behavior.

[djlxiaoshi]

i met the same problem

[gengue]

Same here, I got this: ¨NBSP;

[Stonks3141]

Same here, => { becomes => { in <pre><code> and <code> blocks. Inspecting reveals =&gt {.

[tivie]

we are working on a fix for this (and other related issues).

[tivie]

should be fixed. Will be merged in develop soon.