The text markup (i) is rendered as , a principle which applies to many more Confluence Emoticons. There is a feature request at CONF-4884 for enabling or disabling emoticon rendering in this manner via Confluence's Administrative features. However, to disable emoticon rendering in Confluence:

For Confluence 2.8.x and earlier:

1. Open up the wikiFiltersSubsystemContext.xml:
   • For Confluence 2.5.x and earlier, this file is located in WEB-INF/classes directory
   • For Confluence 2.6.x to Confluence 2.8.x, this file is located in WEB-INF/lib/confluence-2.x.y.jar/plugins. Please follow the steps as suggested here to edit files in a .jar file.
2. Determine the following line and remove/comment out the content:

   <ref local="emoticonRendererComponent"/>

For Confluence 2.9.x and later:

1. Open up the wiki-renderer-components.xml, located in WEB-INF/lib/confluence-2.x.y.jar/plugins. Please follow the steps as suggested here to edit files in a .jar file.
2. Determine the following line and remove/comment out the content:

   <renderer-component key="emoticon" name="Emoticon Renderer" class="com.atlassian.confluence.renderer.plugin.SpringRendererComponentFactory" weight="10000"> <param name="componentName">emoticonRendererComponent</param> </renderer-component>

Alternatively, manually escape the character with a "backslash","\". For example:

\(i)

Code Macro and Noformat Macro is also an option as any emoticons wrapped within the macro will be disabled automatically.