Symbols or Special Characters are hidden in issue page comment & description section

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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}
  • Of you could add {code} blocks in between the appropriate path or text.
      • For example {code}c:\_Program_Files\Atlassian\JIRA {code}




Last modified on Feb 26, 2016

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