Why is some content not parsed?

[georgeedwards]

I have a markdown file which when parsed, on the most part works, but here is an excerpt showing one are which has not worked...

Original.md:

## Table of contents

- [1.1: Install NativeScript and configure your environment](#11-install-nativescript-and-configure-your-environment)
- [1.2: Start your app](#12-start-your-app)
- [1.3: Add target development platforms](#13-add-target-development-platforms)
- [1.4: Running your app](#14-running-your-app)
- [1.5: Development workflow](#15-development-workflow)

## 1.1: Install NativeScript and configure your environment

The NativeScript CLI has a few system requirements you must have in place before building NativeScript apps. Before we get started building, make sure you’ve completed the NativeScript installation instructions using the link below.

* [Complete the NativeScript installation guide](/angular/start/quick-setup)

Output.html:

## Table of contents

- <a href="#11-install-nativescript-and-configure-your-environment">1.1: Install NativeScript and configure your environment</a>
- <a href="#12-start-your-app">1.2: Start your app</a>
- <a href="#13-add-target-development-platforms">1.3: Add target development platforms</a>
- <a href="#14-running-your-app">1.4: Running your app</a>
- <a href="#15-development-workflow">1.5: Development workflow</a>

## 1.1: Install NativeScript and configure your environment

The NativeScript CLI has a few system requirements you must have in place before building NativeScript apps. Before we get started building, make sure you’ve completed the NativeScript installation instructions using the link below.

* <a href="/angular/start/quick-setup">Complete the NativeScript installation guide</a>

In my mind, the ## should parse to <h2> and the - should parse to <li> why isn't this happening, where elsewhere in the file, ## What is NativeScript? has been parsed as <h2 id="what-is-nativescript-">What is NativeScript?</h2>?

[Feder1co5oave]

How are you parsing the markdown source? It looks like you're not lexing it.

[tobinbradley]

I had a similar problem when converting a folder of markdown files and noticed it only happened on files encoded as utf-8. Reencoding them as ASCII fixed the problem. Used a simple:

for i in *.md
do
    if [[ $(enca -L none "$i") != *ASCII* ]]; then
        iconv -c -f  UTF-8 -t ISO-8859-1 "$i" -o "$i.utf8"
        mv "$i.utf8" "$i"
    fi
done

Not sure what was wrong or why this worked, but it did.

[joshbruce]

Closing as stale and most likely covered by spec compliance. See #1106 and #1216