[okular] [Bug 462743] New: Okular markdown backend mismanages UTF-8 encoded chars

[Sergio]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462743

            Bug ID: 462743
           Summary: Okular markdown backend mismanages UTF-8 encoded chars
    Classification: Applications
           Product: okular
           Version: 22.04.3
          Platform: Ubuntu
                OS: Linux
            Status: REPORTED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: markdown backend
          Assignee: okular-devel at kde.org
          Reporter: sergio.callegari at gmail.com
  Target Milestone: ---

SUMMARY

Markdown documents with an UTF-8 encoding have non-ascii chars misrendered.

STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Create a markdown document with some non-ascii chars, using the UTF-8
encoding, for instance insert the char "æ" in the document  
2. Open the document with okular
3. See weird chars in place of the UTF-8 encoded non-ascii chars. For instance
"æ" renders as "æ"

OBSERVED RESULT

The markdown backend uses some (hardcoded?) encoding, maybe Latin1.

EXPECTED RESULT

For documents format where the adopted encoding is not "written inside the
document", the okular backend should use the user default encoding as provided
by the locale and optionally provide a way to select a different encoding.


SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS
Linux/KDE Plasma: 
(available in About System)
Operating System: Kubuntu 22.04
KDE Plasma Version: 5.24.7
KDE Frameworks Version: 5.98.0
Qt Version: 5.15.3
Kernel Version: 5.15.0-56-generic (64-bit)
Graphics Platform: X11
Processors: 8 × Intel® Core™ i7-10510U CPU @ 1.80GHz
Memory: 15,3 GiB of RAM
Graphics Processor: Mesa Intel® UHD Graphics

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