How to use kirbytext() in plain block elements?

Kirby 3 Questions 🤔
1

The exciting new blocks feature of kirby is pretty much more intuively usable and will therefore boost the panel expirience for customers. For a new part of my customer’s website, I’d like to employ blocks. Up to now I have been accustomed to using the kirbytext() feature and Kirby tags alot.

But inside the blocks, that does not work. For example, I’d like to employ an HTML — character in a header, like so:

Startseite — Inhaltsverzeichnis

When I use the block’s render function from the Kirby reference , I only get

Startseite — Inhaltsverzeichnis

Obviously, the header blocks cannot be formatted like markdown text, e. g. with embedded HTML entities, nor can I use my Kirby tags. How can I make that work? Or am I supposed not to use the header blocks, when I have such a requirement, but instead setup every block as a markdown one?

2

Why do you need to add it as htmlentity instead of just the character?

Kirbytags can still be used via the Markdown block (although not inline in a text block)

3

How do you enter characters like — (—), ↑ (↑), and so on, in a cross-browser, cross-platform manner without using the corresponding HTML entities :smiling_face: (☺)?