Boostnote: Export to HTML replaces some special characters with unusual characters

[dtgay]

My setup

I am running Boostnote 0.10.0 on High Sierra 10.13.3. My broswer is Firefox Quantum 58.0.2 (64-bit).

The symptoms

Using the export to HTML feature renders some characters incorrectly. For example, the – character is rendered as either –Â or – , as seen here:

It looks like the Â occur where &nbsps are, as seen in the developer tools here:

In addition, apostrophes (') render as ’, as seen below:

In the developer tools, here is the same instance of isn't:

Example files

Attached is a note file and its HTML export that demonstrate the issue. I changed the cson and html file extensions to txt so GitHub would accept them.

403e979b9127baf0d473.txt
export.txt

_(I can't provide the exact file I noticed the bug on because it contains private information, but I am providing a heavily censored duplicate which shows the same symptoms.)_

EDIT: Another example is double quotes (") being replaced as well. "Internet of Things" is rendered as below:

[Rokt33r]

Funny. 😂😂 I think it is because that we forgot to put <meta charset="UTF-8"> when exporting it.
Could you check again after put the meta tag to the exported html file?

[dtgay]

Adding <meta charset="UTF-8"> to the exported HTML resolves the issue.

I've opened a pull request with a fix. ^

[Rokt33r]

@thedavidgay Thank you for the contribution!