Retain HTML Entities When Parsing Markdown
I have exhausted my research and tried many methods to no effect and am hoping I'm overlooking some kind of simple solution: I am using a Jekyll site to produce HTML files for e-mail and need to use HTML entities for special characters (such as em-dashes and smart quotes) in order to avoid improper symbol interpretation (the content-type/charset is at times stripped out of the e-mail head due to complexities I won't get into here.) My problem is that parsing my Markdown appears to convert all of my written HTML entities into the special characters when output as HTML, and I am unable to escape