Bug 510945 - okular fails to render strike through formatted text of markdown documents (2)
Summary: okular fails to render strike through formatted text of markdown documents (2)
Status: REPORTED
Alias: None
Product: okular
Classification: Applications
Component: markdown backend (other bugs)
Version First Reported In: 25.08.2
Platform: Other Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Okular developers
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: 510944 (view as bug list)
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Reported: 2025-10-23 07:37 UTC by Christian Hartmann
Modified: 2025-10-23 07:38 UTC (History)
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Description Christian Hartmann 2025-10-23 07:37:22 UTC 
SUMMARY

okular failes to render striked through text (using ~~ ... ~~) in markdown 
formatted documents, when it also have some characters, that are converted by 
https://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/
into html entities such as … or ©

Might affect all 
https://www.pell.portland.or.us/~orc/Code/discount/#smartypants

We has a discussion already here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/kde/comments/1o86fz9/kate_and_kwrite_know_and_can_display_markdown/

OBSERVED RESULT
strike through text is not rendered as such

EXPECTED RESULT
strike through text is rendered as such

SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Operating System: Fedora Linux 42
KDE Plasma Version: 6.4.5
KDE Frameworks Version: 6.19.0
Qt Version: 6.9.2
Kernel Version: 6.16.12-200.fc42.x86_64 (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: Wayland

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
https://imgbox.com/g/63LQenR1jY
https://imgbox.com/51ZHNRej (the better one)
Comment 1 Christian Hartmann 2025-10-23 07:38:36 UTC 
*** Bug 510944 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***