Summary

When using a \ backslash to escape a [ square bracket, the Markup has an incoherent behaviour.

How to reproduce

1. Create a new page
2. Click the + symbol at the toolbar
3. Select markup
4. type "\ [content\ ]"

Expected results

• The first square bracket is escaped and shown as normal text, without transforming the content between them into a link.

Actual Results

• The content in the same line as the \ [ is wrapped in a macro
  If this is inside a table, two more columns will be added and the content will be between those, in other columns

Workaround

• Avoid escaping the [ square bracket. Instead, escape only this ] square bracket. Escaping this ] square bracket (\ ]) at the same line, before escaping this [ square bracket (\ [) also avoids this issue
• Use the ASCII equivalent codes for [ and ] , "&#91" for [ and "&#93" for ].

This does not happen when typing straight into the text editor.

Attached screenshots of this behaviour. There is no reference to this under Confluence Wiki Markup