fix: format special characters correctly

[gitstart]

• Closes Special characters wrongly displayed in runner UI assertions, formatted as markdown #5679

User facing changelog

Bugfixes:

• Updated the reporter to correctly render special characters. Previously special characters would be automatically formatted with markdown.

Additional details

A number of users reported having faced this issue and that they needed a fix for it. Please refer to #5679 and #7419 for more context.

Only assertions using to.match() and to.equal() with special characters are affected by this change, the rest of the assertions and content in the reporter will stay largely unaffected.

This change checks for all messages containing to match() or to equal() and then converts the message to markdown as before but this time it does not convert the assertion. It then wraps the assertion in <strong>${assertion}</strong> to make it appear bold.

Steps to test

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PR Tasks

• Have tests been added/updated?
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• Has a PR for user-facing changes been opened in cypress-documentation?
• [na] Have API changes been updated in the type definitions?

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[gitstart]

@rachelruderman I believe this should work

[cypress]

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Test summary

37721 • 0 • 456 • 0 • 12

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Run details

Project	cypress
Status	Passed
Commit	81e2d5a
Started	Jul 14, 2022 2:33 PM
Ended	Jul 14, 2022 3:02 PM
Duration	28:45 💡
OS	Linux Debian - 10.11
Browser	Multiple

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Flakiness

	actions/click.cy.js		2
1	... > scroll-behavior > can scroll to and click elements in html with scroll-behavior: smooth
2	... > scroll-behavior > can scroll to and click elements in html with scroll-behavior: smooth
	navigation.cy.js		1
1	src/cy/commands/navigation > #visit > window immediately resolves and doesn't reload when visiting the same URL with hashes
	xhr.cy.js		2
1	... > logs request + response headers
2	... > logs Method, Status, URL, and XHR
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[tbiethman]

@gitstart it looks like there's still some failures in the new tests: https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/cypress-io/cypress/40184/workflows/db1cfce2-2a2c-477a-a946-27aea19a2219/jobs/1650275/tests#failed-test-1

[gitstart]

Hey @tbiethman @rachelruderman I'm sorry, I fell sick, been in the hospital for a number of days. I've fixed this. There was an extra space.

[rachelruderman]

@gitstart glad you're out of the hospital and feeling better! Thank you for your contribution 🌟

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