In one of my wiki pages, I was hoping to output a double tilde ("~") character to describe how to add strikethrough markdown and realize I am not able to escape a single or double tilde character. For instances, I wanted to create an issue template at the top of the issue page and I had the following text:

## Remaining tasks

• **

1. Sample unfinished task
2. Another sample unfinished task
3. Sample on hold task [onhold]
4. ~_{Sample finished task [done]}~

Here's the raw markdown

## Remaining tasks  
  
1. Sample unfinished task  
1. Another sample unfinished task  
1. \*Sample on hold task [onhold]\*  
1. ~~~~Sample finished task [done]~~~~  

For the last "finished" task, notice how it only works if I use 4 tilde characters in a row. It seems to work fine, except I was hoping to not have the text styled. Currently this is not possible, because if I add the escaped character (i.e. ~_{Sample finished task [done]~}), it shows the backslash. Is there any workaround?

I verified with the documentation that the tilde character is not a something you can escape:

Backslash escapes

This may be an outlier request, but still useful to be consistent throughout your documentation. That is why I categorized this issue as a bug vs enhancement/proposal.