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Usage of dangling ] messes up the parser.

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#12 opened on Mar 13, 2017

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Description

STR:

  • Use ]] in your string.
  • Observe the markdown output.

Expected:

  • ]] should come up normally.

Actual:

  • ]] doesn't come up.

Demo. Compare it with remarkable

Why I care ?

A Punjabi font uses roman characters to form Punjabi alphabets. It uses ]] for what is know as full stop in Punjabi. It is broken now after I moved from remarkable to snarkdown. I love the perf and size of library, and I understand why this might not be considered to be fixed, but I thought it's worth the shot!

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Research direction
Inspect the markdown parser's handling of closing brackets `]]` in text. Trace the regex or state machine that processes inline brackets and ensure that double closing brackets are not treated as special sequences. Focus on the tokenization or rendering phase where `]]` is consumed.
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