Unable to Use Some Characters Like Backslash

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This is no longer an issue with Confluence Server & Data Center 7.x+

Symptoms

Some characters are used in the wiki markup body making them unusable by default. Using these characters in your pages doesn't work. If you try:

 \*.*

OR

\_A.

it won't render, it will be shown as:

*.*

OR

_A.


The "\" will escape the "*" the double backslash will break the line (confluence does not use \n to break line) and escape the underline "_".

Cause

Confluence uses these characters to render its own content.

Resolution

This is a limitation of the editor. Please refer CONFSERVER-2494. You can use {code} as a workaround.

{code}
*.*
{code}






























Last modified on Jan 2, 2023

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