Symbols or Special Characters are hidden in issue page comment & description section
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*Except Fisheye and Crucible
Symptoms
Backslashes, asterisks and other special characters are hidden in the comment section and description section of the page if typed in a certain sequence.
Cause
This is caused by the Text Formatting Notation from the Wiki Markup formatting. Please take a look at these pages for more information :
Resolution
You could add {noformat} blocks in between the appropriate path or text.
- For example {noformat} c:\_Program_Files\Atlassian\JIRA {noformat}
- For example {noformat} c:\_Program_Files\Atlassian\JIRA {noformat}
- Of you could add {code} blocks in between the appropriate path or text.
- For example {code}c:\_Program_Files\Atlassian\JIRA {code}
- For example {code}c:\_Program_Files\Atlassian\JIRA {code}