Won't display ⌘ (apple command symbol) about vmd HOT 10 CLOSED

I'm guessing the font doesn't support that character. I tried both ⌘ and ⌘ in a Markdown document and they both show up as a square in vmd. Though, if you copy the square from vmd and paste it into something that supports the character it shows a ⌘. So the transformation from ⌘ to ⌘ does work.

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Ok, I see that now. I get the same behavior here. What font is being used in VMD? I'm on Linux and perhaps the wrong font is being used.

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I'm also on Linux. The font family is 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, 'Segoe UI', Arial, freesans, sans-serif. The definition comes from the github-markdown-css package. On my system it renders with Liberation Sans which means it fell all the way through to sans-serif.

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I went into github-markdown-css and manually set the font to "Noto Sans" to see what would happen, and it's having the same problem. ⌘ is rendered as a square. So I'm guessing it's not the github-markdown-css package, but rather how VMD is interpreting the HTML entity code?

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I just checked on in Chrome on GitHub and it also falls through to Liberation Sans but it does render the characters properly. You you're right. It must be something in vmd. Or in Electron.

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Oh sure, maybe it's an electron issue.

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On OS X:

• ⌘ renders fine
• &#8984 is interpreted as a literal

marked doesn't seem to allow encoding to be configured, mdast-html seems to allow it. I've been thinking of switching for a while; maybe this would work with mdast.

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👍 😉

Maybe use mdast-react (which could easily be forked for vdom?) for speed though.

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Markn uses mdast and md2react and it's working fine on that app. In fact it would be nice if some features of VMD combined with Markn. 😉

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Just tested this again, and everything works fine now. ⌘ renders correctly as ⌘

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