Line breaks turning into spaces is undesirable in CJK languages

[account-login]

CJK languages do not use spaces to separate words. Line breaks in markdown should not render into spaces.

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啊啊啊

<p>啊啊啊 啊啊啊</p>

This also affects typst output.

Note that web browsers do render line breaks correctly (no space between CJK characters).

Pandoc version?: 3.8.2.1

[jgm]

Have you looked at
https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#extension-east_asian_line_breaks
To enable this, use -f markdown+east_asian_line_breaks.

[account-login]

east_asian_line_breaks does work. I wonder why this isn't the default. I also need --wrap=none for typst output because typst has the same problem.

[jgm]

Not sure what you mean about typst. This is what I see:

% pandoc -f markdown+east_asian_line_breaks -t typst
啊啊啊
啊啊啊
^D
啊啊啊啊啊啊

[jgm]

As for the default, I think it would be worth discussing whether to make this extension set by default. Perhaps open a question on Discussions here?

[TomBener]

Not sure what you mean about typst. This is what I see:

I guess what he or she means is Typst is not able to ignore softbreaks between CJK characters currently, so it is necessary to enable --wrap=none when converting Markdown to Typst with Pandoc, see typst/typst#792