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Resolves #464

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Breaking change: generated ids for non-ASCII headings change (caf becomes café) details in #464. Opt out with headingIds: false (#284).

@farnabaz this is not marked as a breaking change in the commit, following the precedent of #126 and #409; feel free to add the commit footer if you prefer.

Heading ids now keep Unicode letters, marks, and numbers, so headings in any language get a working anchor. The id attribute is skipped when the composed slug would be empty or a bare de-duplication suffix (-1), which only happens for symbol-only headings. Parent-prefix and de-duplication behavior are unchanged, and the degenerate letter-bearing ids (-setup, setup-) are pre-existing and out of scope.

The new behavior matches github-slugger, which GitHub, Nuxt Content, and Docusaurus use for heading anchors; the remaining differences are Comark's existing hyphen collapsing and leading-digit _ prefix.

Tests cover accented Latin, Cyrillic, CJK, and symbol-only headings, including de-duplication and parent prefixes.

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  • Bug Fixes

    • Generated heading IDs now preserve Unicode letters, combining marks, and numbers, including accented Latin, Cyrillic, and CJK characters. Precomposed and decomposed accents produce consistent IDs.
    • Headings that contain only punctuation or symbols no longer receive generated IDs.
    • Nested heading prefixes are applied only when both parent and child IDs are nonempty.
    • IDs for headings beginning with ASCII digits are prefixed with an underscore.
  • Documentation

    • Clarified which characters are retained or omitted when generating heading IDs, including when no ID is generated.

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Heading IDs now retain Unicode letters, combining marks, and specified number categories. Empty slugs do not receive generated IDs. Nested IDs receive parent prefixes only when both IDs are nonempty and the parent heading is level 2 or deeper.

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Generate and apply heading IDs
packages/comark/src/internal/parse/token-processor.ts, packages/comark/src/types.ts, packages/comark/test/heading-ids.test.ts, packages/comark/SPEC/common-mark/headings-id-unicode.md, docs/content/5.reference/1.parse.md, docs/content/5.reference/3.reference.md, docs/skills/comark/references/markdown-syntax.md
Slug generation normalizes text to NFC and retains Unicode letters, marks, decimal digits, and letter numbers. Empty slugs and generated IDs matching -\d+ are omitted. Nested IDs receive parent prefixes only when both IDs are nonempty and the parent level is at least 2. Tests, the fixture, and documentation describe these rules.

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Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to b1a66

Heading IDs now keep non-ASCII letters, marks and most digits. Symbols such as ① or ½ do not produce an ID, which is documented in the API types. No blocking risk remains.

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The change affects heading anchors rather than access privileges or isolation. The inspected rendering path continues to escape attribute values, and explicit heading IDs remain authoritative. Compatibility risk remains for applications and links that depend on the previous generated identifiers.

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  • inferred — The demonstrated attacker-controlled influence is over generated heading attributes and downstream TOC identifiers within parsed documents. The traced change does not introduce a new privileged sink; exposure through external consumers remains unassessed.

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  • observed — The existing parser-to-renderer boundary and escaped HTML attribute sink are preserved. Unicode character preservation does not bypass attribute serialization, and user-ID precedence remains unchanged.

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  • observed — Heading counters and parent-stack state are rebuilt for each document conversion. The existing streaming path avoids incremental reuse when remaining headings could affect IDs, preserving document-wide recomputation. Parser-level recovery and concurrency limitations predate this change.
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commit: b1a6623

Keep Unicode letters, marks, and numbers when generating heading ids, so headings in any language get a usable anchor. Skip the id when the composed slug is empty or a bare deduplication suffix, which only happens for symbol-only headings.

Fixes comarkdown#464
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- Line 647: Update the heading ID generation filter in the token-processing flow
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- Line 652: Update the leading-character cleanup in slugify to strip leading
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.replace(/\s+/g, '-') // Replace spaces with hyphens
.replace(/[^\w-]+/g, '') // Remove non-word chars (except hyphens)
// Keep Unicode letters, marks and numbers; drop everything else.
.replace(/[^\p{L}\p{M}\p{Nd}\p{Nl}_-]+/gu, '')

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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Retain every Unicode number category.

The filter keeps Nd and Nl but drops No. For example, ## ① loses its only number and receives no generated ID. The documented contract says generated IDs keep Unicode numbers. Use \p{N} and add a test for an No heading.

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Update the heading ID generation filter in the token-processing flow to retain
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