Markdown Service Tools and UTF-8

The Markdown Service Tools have been updated to 2.10. I learned some new Ruby/UTF-8 tricks in the process, and they should all be capable of handling extended character sets now. Please download and test out the new versions. Let me know if you still have any trouble with Umlats, Kanji, Cyrillic, etc.

I’ve also updated the MarkdownToMindMap Service to handle UTF-8 characters. It took me forever to figure out why they were getting mangled, but I believe I’ve solved it in the portion of the script that copies the output to the clipboard using pbcopy. For future reference, the line now looks like this:

%x{printf "%b" #{Shellwords.escape(outdent(lines.join("\n")).strip)}|LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pbcopy}

The important part being LANG=en_US.UTF-8 pbcopy. Because it’s calling out to a shell, the $LANG variable I use system-wide doesn’t get set, but forcing it before the pbcopy command makes the utility respect UTF-8 encoding.