I'm building a CMS which needs to manage content in english, chinese, and spanish at a minimum. Do most markdown implementations handle UTF-8 encoded text? Is the Markdown language designed to be used with non-english languages? I'm currently using Markdown Extra by Michel Fortin.
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As Michel Fortin (a french speaking guy), I use his library (the extra one) with special characters like éà without any problem
Delapouite
2010-05-25 15:02:43
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Markdown is languages neutral so you can use it easily as it does not care about encoding as long as ASCII is a subset of it.
However I would not recommend you using smarty-pants as they designed for English so you may get incorrect quotes in your language.
Artyom
2010-05-27 19:34:12