From 0302d86053729f2593ba7c9be3b3e72360b34c74 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "R. Kent James" <kent@caspia.com>
Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2024 13:31:06 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Force Pandoc to return UTF8

---
 _ruby_libs/text_rendering.rb | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/_ruby_libs/text_rendering.rb b/_ruby_libs/text_rendering.rb
index 997092ae..9642f758 100644
--- a/_ruby_libs/text_rendering.rb
+++ b/_ruby_libs/text_rendering.rb
@@ -7,7 +7,8 @@
 # Converts RST to Markdown
 def rst_to_md(rst)
   begin
-    return PandocRuby.convert(rst, :from => :rst, :to => :markdown)
+    # For some reason, Pandoc is converting UTF-8 into ASCII which then kills kramdown
+    return PandocRuby.convert(rst, :from => :rst, :to => :markdown).force_encoding(Encoding::UTF_8)
   rescue Exception => e
     return "Could not convert RST to MD: "+e.to_s
   end