"Markdown" support in chat [bold, italics, underlined, strikethrough, inline code, labeled links, delimited links]

[ian]

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Markdown support for DC-Android and DC-iOS

Expected behavior DC-Android and DC-iOS support markdown. Actual behavior DC-Android and DC-iOS do not support markdown. Explanation Text formatting, along with the use of emojis, is a great way to make parts of a message or the message itself stand out. Therefore, many messengers support it. For example WhatsApp, Telegram, Threema and Signal. Unfortunately, the situation in DC is inconsistent. DC-Desktop supports markdown, but unfortunately the other versions do not yet. I use markdown, amon…

[maphouse]

a desktop arcane chat would be nice for the md support. until then we’re stuck w dchat client

[lucarne]

@link2xt

foo ***bar **baz * foo is not parsed by this forum (it displays foo ***bar **baz * foo), same for CommonMark, but pandoc converts it to <p>foo <em><strong>bar </strong>baz </em> foo</p> (when not in CommonMark mode). And there are lots of cases where you want to just type literal * and escaping rules for * differ among implementations too. You can’t just escape everything, because it will be unreadable in plaintext, and the longer the text, the higher the chance that some unescaped * will be treated as a closing symbol. Add unicode character classification to the mix, with differences in how punctuation characters and so on are dectected depending on the version of unicode supported. pandoc has round-trip test for markdown disabled for this reason, and it is very difficult to make it work

Everything has been said. Chatmail core should not support Markdown. Html is a wiser path (or something else equivalent).

Then, nothing prevent the clients to implement Markdown realtime interpretation (meaning you write in markdown and it is immediately converted to WYSIWYG).