Please add a Python version query to the file "plugin.py" for the "Return Value". Otherwise the following error will be displayed under Python 3.x, when starting the server:
"NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined"

The following variants have to be considered:
in python2.x:
return unicode(soup, 'utf-8')

in python3.x:
return str(soup.encode('utf-8'))

Thanks
Patrick

Hi, your plugin is listed in the MkDocs Plugins wiki page, and therefore was added to https://github.com/pawamoy/best-of-mkdocs (section images, tables, charts).
It would help if you could add a description on your GitHub repository 🙂
If this project is not maintained, I can hardcode a description in the best-of list, just let me know 👍

Even though the fix for the 'unicode' bug and support for python3 was implemented on #1 , pypi is still out of date:
https://pypi.org/project/mkdocs-mermaid-plugin/#history

I did a fresh install and got the unicode is not defined error.

Mermaid2 solved this issue with the this commit. It's a compatibility issue with Python 3.

When mkdocs build is run the following output takes place.

INFO    -  Cleaning site directory 
INFO    -  Building documentation to directory: /.../site 
ERROR   -  Error building page 'index.md': name 'unicode' is not defined 
...
.../lib/python3.7/site-packages/markdownmermaid/plugin.py", line 22, in on_post_page
    return unicode(soup)
NameError: name 'unicode' is not defined

Hi @pugong,

Asking because the published version on PyPi is outdated and some good PRs are waiting to be merged for months.
I'm interested in MkDocs MermaidJS integration and if this repo is not actively maintained, I propose myself to keep developing it.

I was not able to find out how to use the plugin inside markdown files. Could you add usage description to README.md?