Dark images when posting HEIC images

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If I take a picture on my iPhone, generating an HEIC image, I can’t drag/drop it directly into Discourse. The format isn’t supported.

If I open it in Preview and copy/paste the image into Discourse, I get a very dark image (it looks fine in Preview):

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If I open it in Photoshop Elements and copy/paste it from there, it looks good (I assume PSE is doing some color-space conversion):

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I assume this is a bug in Discourse. I don’t know if it is something that can be fixed without the upstream Discourse developers making changes.

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Well, huh! I will admit, HEIC mostly just irks me. I always drag out of Photos to the desktop to get a JPEG and then drag that into other apps.

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IRK!

(Pretty well describes it… ;~}

However, if you drag and drop a *.HEIC into a Safari window, it does seem to display properly.