Problem with special characters (e.g. umlauts) and emphasis

[Skyr]

The emphasis (and probably more, I didn't test that) markup symbol is not correctly recognized if the character immediately following (or, in the closing case, the character immediately preceding) is a special character like a german umlaut (same problem with „typographic quotes“):

require 'rdiscount'
markdown = RDiscount.new("*foo ä bar*")
puts markdown.to_html   # <p><em>foo ä bar</em></p> <-- as expected
markdown = RDiscount.new("*ä foobar*")
puts markdown.to_html   # <p>*ä foobar*</p> <-- Emphasis is missing!
markdown = RDiscount.new("*foobar ä*")
puts markdown.to_html   # <p>*foobar ä*</p> <-  Emphasis is missing!

Tested with rdiscount 2.1.6.

[davidfstr]

Interesting. I will run a test with the underlying Discount.

[davidfstr]

Confirmed in Discount 2.1.6. Filed upstream as: Orc/discount#85

[Skyr]

Thanks for testing and forwarding the bug!

[davidfstr]

This is fixed in RDiscount 2.1.7.

I will add a regression test.