markdown filter does not work with non-ASCII characters

[anonymous]

The markdown filter calls markdown with smart_str(value). This forces the value to utf-8. The markdown module does not accept a utf-8 str, only unicode or an ascii str. It raises an exception, informing the user of this fact, which django then ignores, resulting in no output from the filter.

Since markdown accepts unicode, there is no reason to call smart_str on the value, it can just be passed straight to markdown.

[Karen Tracey <kmtracey@…>]

You specify version of SVN but this was already fixed in #6387? Are you using a version older than 3 months ago? Note the correct fix has to handle running with an old version of markdown as well, it did not support unicode until recently.

[Daniel Pope <dan@…>]

For Markdown 1.6b, this is actually a duplicate of #5663.