mitcho (Michael Yoshitaka Erlewine)

<a href="http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax" rel="nofollow ugc">Markdown syntax</a> allows you to write using an easy-to-read, easy-to-write plain text format.
Markdown for WordPress and bbPress (Markdown-WPBB) is based on the famed PHP Markdown Extra by <a href="http://www.michelf.com/projects/php-markdown/" rel="nofollow ugc">Michel Fortin</a>, in turn based on the original Perl version by <a href="http://www.daringfireball.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">John Gruber</a>. All I did was make the same package work with bbPress too. ^^

Markdown for WordPress and bbPress

A text-to-HTML conversion tool for web writers

Andrea Ercolino

Full UTF-8 adds complete support for any UTF-8 character. 
Without this plugin, WordPress truncates anything after the first 4-bytes-long UTF-8 character.
Suppose you copy some text from a web page and paste it into the editor. You see 
everything is fine, so you hit save. As soon as the page is reloaded, you find out that your post 
has been truncated at a point that seems to be quite random. Well, that’s not random. 
The breaking point is the position of the first 4-bytes-long UTF-8 character. 
Anything from that one up to the end of the post is irremediably lost forever.
You definitely need to install this plugin if you write 4-bytes-long UTF-8 characters. 
How do you know that? Many Chinese characters, musical and mathematical symbols and Emoji icons 
are 4-bytes-long. But you can always <a href="http://shapecatcher.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">try to draw something</a> and check for yourself. 
If you get a Unicode hexadecimal value with more than four digits after 0x then it is a 4-bytes-long UTF-8 character. 
For example, a <a href="http://shapecatcher.com/unicode/info/119070" rel="nofollow ugc">G-clef</a> is one because 0x1D11E has 5 digits after 0x. 
1. This plugin is a WordPress “drop in”. Drop-ins are advanced plugins in the wp-content 
directory that replace WordPress functionality when present. 
1. This plugin is completely automatic. You are not supposed to do anything special 
to make it work after activating it.
<h4>Interesting Links</h4>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/05/18/the-beauty-of-typography-writing-systems-and-calligraphy-of-the-world/" rel="nofollow ugc">Beauty of Writing Systems</a></li>
<li><a href="http://rishida.net/docs/unicode-tutorial/part1" rel="nofollow ugc">Complexity of Writing Systems</a></li>
<li><a href="https://the-pastry-box-project.net/oli-studholme/2013-october-8" rel="nofollow ugc">What is UTF-8?</a></li>
</ul>

Full UTF-8

Trustfully write anything in your language. Stop worrying about truncated content.

Markdown for WordPress and bbPress vs Full UTF-8