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  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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          is caused by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. CONFSERVER-2494 No way (other than entity) to get backslash in monospaced text.

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. CONFSERVER-7262 Can't escape double-backslash (like '\\') in wiki markup editor

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed
          is duplicated by

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRACLOUD-65094 Markup truly broken, especially for code

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-9258 Not possible to escape backslashes

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-27875 Text with backslash not rendered correctly

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-28778 Plain description and comment text is misinterpreting backslashes that occur before an underscore so that "\_" is rendered as "_"

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Closed
          is related to

          Suggestion - JRASERVER-71463 Update Text Formatting Notation Help page linked out from within Jira to show how to escape backslashes.

          • Gathering Interest
          was cloned as

          Bug - A problem which impairs or prevents the functions of the product. JRASERVER-76901 Inconsistent behaviour of backslash in wiki renderer

          • Low - Low priority issues
          • Gathering Impact
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              bdziedzic Bogdan Dziedzic [Atlassian]
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