Wrong rendering of '**foo**

Describe the problem

I’m not sure this is the right place, but I have noticed an issue where '**foo** is rendered in HTML as ”foo, but ’**foo** is fine (rendered as ’foo).

Link to your repository or website

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Steps to reproduce

1. Write a markdown file that has '**foo** ’**foo**.
2. Render to HTML.
3. Observe the HTML rendered as: ”foo ’foo

The version of Python you’re using

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Your operating system

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Versions of your packages

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Additional context

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[chrisjsewell]

Heya, I have indeed reproduced this, by setting the language to fr, and also exactly the same happens in .rst files. So this is part of sphinx’s translation mechanism.

I’m going to close this here then, if thats ok, since I don’t think it is anything that myst-parser can affect. I would suggest maybe opening an issue on https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx if you feel this is incorrect.

Obviously feel free to re-open, if they show that it is a bug in myst-parser thanks

[davidbrochart]

Sure, this is a sanitized _config.yml:

#######################################################################################
# A default configuration that will be loaded for all jupyter books
# See the documentation for help and more options: 
# https://jupyterbook.org/customize/config.html

#######################################################################################
# Book settings
title                       : foo  # The title of the book. Will be placed in the left navbar.
author                      : bar  # The author of the book
copyright                   : "2021"  # Copyright year to be placed in the footer
logo                        : Jupyter_logo.svg  # A path to the book logo

sphinx:
  config:
    language: 'fr'

# Force re-execution of notebooks on each build.
# See https://jupyterbook.org/content/execute.html
execute:
  execute_notebooks: force

# Define the name of the latex output file for PDF builds
latex:
  latex_documents:
    targetname: baz.tex

# Add a bibtex file so that we can create citations
#bibtex_bibfiles:
#  - references.bib

# Information about where the book exists on the web
repository:
  url: https://github.com/foo/bar  # Online location of your book
#  path_to_book:  # Optional path to your book, relative to the repository root
  branch: main  # Which branch of the repository should be used when creating links (optional)

exclude_patterns:
  - _build
  - __pycache__
  - .pytest_cache
  - "**.ipynb_checkpoints"
  - .githug
  - CONTRIBUTING.md
  - CONDUCT.md

# Add GitHub buttons to your book
# See https://jupyterbook.org/customize/config.html#add-a-link-to-your-repository
html:
  use_issues_button: true
  use_repository_button: true
  use_edit_page_button: true
  extra_navbar: Site produit par <a href="https://jupyterbook.org">Jupyter Book</a>

parse:
  myst_enable_extensions:  # default extensions to enable in the myst parser. See https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/using/syntax-optional.html
    - html_image
    # - amsmath
    - colon_fence
    # - deflist
    - dollarmath
    - html_admonition
    - linkify
    # - replacements
    # - smartquotes
    - substitution