Html special characters inside text links

[finex]

What version of Hugo are you using (hugo version)?

$ hugo version
v0.71.1

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

Current behaviour:

Hi, currently if you put special characters or html entities, the result is not predictable. Here you can find some examples: in some cases both the char and the html code are escaped, in other cases (like ... and ' or ' are rendered.

Markdown	HTML output
[&](url)	<a href="url">&amp;amp;</a>
[&amp;](url)	<a href="url">&amp;amp;</a>
[...](url)	<a href="url">&amp;hellip;</a>
[&hellip;](url)	<a href="url">…</a>
[&nbsp;](url)	<a href="url">&nbsp;</a>
[<](url)	<a href="url">&amp;lt;</a>
[&lt;](url)	<a href="url">&amp;lt;</a>
["](url)	<a href="url">&amp;quot;</a>
[&quot;](url)	<a href="url">&amp;quot;</a>
['](url)	<a href="url">'</a>
[&apos;](url)	<a href="url">'</a>

Expected behaviour

Special characters should be correctly rendered. At least one of the two versions (the html entity or the character itself).

Thanks :-)

[jmooring]

I am unable to reproduce the problem with Hugo Static Site Generator v0.72.0/extended linux/amd64 BuildDate: 2020-05-31T18:10:04Z

[jmooring]

I am still unable to reproduce the problem. Are you using a render hook to rewrite the link? If so, please point me to the code for your render hook.

[hawkeye116477]

Are you using a render hook to rewrite the link?

Ah, yes, sorry, my bad, I forgot about it, now is fine 😄

[jmooring]

@hawkeye116477:

Please close this issue. In the future, please post problems such as these to the Hugo Forum.

[hawkeye116477]

@jmooring Ok, anyway, I didn't opened issue, @finex did that.

[finex]

Hi, I simply installed Hugo 0.71 and created a markdown file with the code I've described on the first post. The Hugo settings are the default except for the "unsafe" setting. I will try again with 0.72 on the next days. 😀

[jmooring]

I changed config.toml as shown below, and still cannot reproduce the problem.

[markup.goldmark.renderer]
unsafe = true

[finex]

Are you using a render hook to rewrite the link? If so, please point me to the code for your render hook.

You're right: I've wrote a custom render template for adding target="_blank" on external links but the text was printed using {{ .Text }}. I've solved adding | safeHTML filter.

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