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  1. Jira Data Center
  2. JRASERVER-23558

Inconsistent behaviour of backslash in wiki renderer

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      Wiki Markup Limitations

      This is caused by a limitation in the wiki markup language / renderer described at CONF-2494 and cannot be fixed without breaking backwards compatibility.

      Workaround

      Insert the html escape sequence for the backslash character as:

      \

      single backslash - Escape special character
      https://support.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jspa?section=miscellaneous

      double backslash - Creates a line break. Not often needed, most of the time the wiki renderer will guess new lines for you appropriately.
      https://support.atlassian.com/secure/WikiRendererHelpAction.jspa?section=breaks

      triple backslash - Displays all three characters

      In a case where user will need to use backslash as a part of their comment there isn't any way to enter it in the field.
      For e.g. 

      I:\Admin\_IT Finance

      is displayed as:
      I:\Admin_IT Finance

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              bdziedzic Bogdan Dziedzic [Atlassian]
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