Wrong conversion of emoji to Jira Markup

[saladpanda]

Explain the problem.
Jira renders :P and :D as emoji except when followed by [0-9A-Za-z].
So the following Jira Markup:

:PZ :DZ
:P[ :D[
:P :D
:P  :D 
:P  :D 
:P] :D]
:P^ :D^
:P_ :D_
:P` :D`
:Pa :Da
:P1 :D1

Is rendered like this:

The Jira renderer however escapes the : in all of the cases which leads to a backslash being rendered where there should be none.

$  pandoc pandoc -f markdown -t jira test.md
\:PZ \:DZ <– wrong
\:P\[ \:D\[
\:P \:D
\:P \:D
\:P  \:D 
\:P\] \:D\]
\:P\^ \:D\^
\:P\_ \:D\_
\:P` \:D`
\:Pa \:Da <– wrong
\:P1 \:D1 <– wrong

Pandoc version?

$ pandoc --version
pandoc 2.9.2.1
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.20, texmath 0.12.0.2, skylighting 0.8.5

Same result with the latest version

[jgm]

You're converting from Markdown, so the Markdown rules, not the Jira ones, determine the meaning of the expression :P. In Markdown :P is just a literal colon plus the letter P -- so that's what we deliver in Jira output.

Thus, not a bug.

[saladpanda]

@jgm please reopen.

I'm sorry, my bug report was not clear enough. Let me try again:

Expected result:
Markdown input: :P :P_ :PA :Pa :P2
Pandoc conversion to jira markup: \:P \:P\_ :PA :Pa :P2
Rendered by jira like this:

Actual result:
Markdown input: :P :P_ :PA :Pa :P2
Pandoc conversion to jira markup:

$ echo ":P :P_ :PA :Pa :P2" | pandoc -f markdown -t jira
\:P \:P\_ \:PA \:Pa \:P2

Rendered by jira like this:

So pandoc is actually outputting too many backslashes. The last three backslashes are wrong.

[tarleb]

This will require fixing in tarleb/jira-wiki-markup.

[saladpanda]

Thanks. I guess this also deserves the "reader" tag since the reader wrongfully consumes the backslash in these situations:

echo "\:PA" | pandoc -f jira -t markdown
:PA

The correct output would be \:PA

[tarleb]

Good point, thanks.