The reason goldmark uses []byte and not []rune

[emad-elsaid]

I noticed that throughout the code Goldmark uses []byte which makes iterating over it can cause some problems with mutibyte characters such as if a parser should have a trigger that's an emoji or an arabic character. in this case it's never triggered because the byte never matches the character.

So maybe I'm missing something or that was an overlook during design?

[ExtinctPatronageDeodorize]

I don't have a full answer, but I think it should be possible to work around this by returning the first byte of the character of interest in trigger, and check the following bytes once the parser has been called. Would that work?