Markdown syntax is escaped when pasting markdown text into the editor

[aleksey]

I'm facing this issue when pasting markdown text from the web, from VSCode, or, for instance, from ChatGPT. The behaviour is the same both in my implementation and in the live demo.

Am I missing something? How to overcome this?

[aleksey]

I realized that when pasting into the source mode the characters are not escaped. When I switch back to the rich text, everything renders correcly.

But I'm implementing a WYSIWYG editor for a client and don't really want to expose the source mode. Is all of the above the expected behaviour?