[kramdown-users] using kramdown in xhtml

[Elliot Winkler]

On 6/11/10 12:55 AM, Thomas Leitner wrote:
> * Just using whatever the user gives to kramdown and outputting it in
>    the same encoding. This is by far the easiest way, in Ruby 1.8 and
>    1.9. The only difference between 1.8 and 1.9 is that in 1.9 kramdown
>    knows the encoding whereas in 1.8 kramdown can only assume that the
>    string is ASCII compatible.
>
>    So basically the user needs to make sure that the string is in the
>    correct encoding before it is given to kramdown.

If there were a "keep your hands off my special characters" option in 
addition to the numeric entities option, that's how I'd think it should 
work. Is there a case in which kramdown needs to convert the source text 
into another encoding?

-- Elliot