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Bug: markdown code is converting angle brackets wrong

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#511 opened on Jun 2, 2021

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Description

Summary: When we write left angle bracket (<) within backticks, it shows &lt;. The expected output is to show the angle bracket as is.

Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Create a card
  2. Add "text" contents and write angle brackets within backticks: `m < n`
  3. See the resulting text: m &lt; n.

Expected behavior: The resulting text must be m < n

Screenshots: Attached two screenshots: before and after typing m < n.

Platform:

  • I can see this problem from Linux, Windows, and MacOS.
  • I am using self-hosted focalboard v0.6.7 on Ubuntu 20.

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Research direction
Find the markdown rendering code, likely a function that processes backtick code blocks, and trace how angle brackets are handled. Look for HTML entity encoding that may be prematurely converting `<` to `&lt;`.
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typescript
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