How can I escape a backslash using JIRA markup?

[Bogdan_Calmac]

How can I write foo\bar using JIRA markup? The backslash is an escape character and the double backslash does not appear to be rendered as a single backslash.

https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-9258describes a workaround using the HTML escape code \ but I don't consider this to be a resonable solution.

[Mike_Rosoft]

This is a serious bug. If Jira has a WYSIWYG editor, it should be really WYSIWYG, and not just make a half-hearted attempt at it. (It should automatically escape all characters as needed, so that what you type is really what gets shown on the page.)

[brettveen]

Use the Character Encoding Number: 

\

[Camilo Santana]

OP stated

{Quote}https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/JRA-9258describes a workaround using the HTML escape code \ but I don't consider this to be a resonable solution{quote}

[Gilad Hoch]

actually, the above didn't work for me.  this did:

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[Camilo Santana]

for the shruggie enthusiasts

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UPDATE:

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It appears you can just type it out now. NO NEED TO REPLY TO THIS THREAD. 

[Damian Torres]

This is the exact reason I was trying to find out how to escape a backslash without a newline.  :)

[mabl]

Shruggers gonna shrug! ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[Becca]

This worked for me:

{code}
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{code}

[mabl]

Still no fix?!

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[Camilo Santana]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

It appears you can just type it out now

[Henning Tietgens]

If it's a special text (like a directory) you could use

{noformat}
foo\*.txt
{noformat}

[Bogdan_Calmac]

That's a whole different formatting. I needed to use this in a normal paragraph, something like "Copy all foo\*.txt files to the bar directory and ..."

[Henning Tietgens]

OK, than I only know the already mentioned method in JRA-9258.

[David Rayna]

There are many cases where symbols follow \ and the \ cannot be displayed.

I've wasted too much time with this trying to find workarounds that look terrible if they work at all.

[Petar Andreev]

Any working solution? I have to escape apostrophe (') and failed to find a way so far. I have to write "Won't do" in the conditional execution field.

[Petar Andreev]

I have gone for the "Will not do" workaround. 

[Bogdan_Calmac]

UPDATE: Initially I picked the wrong example. As pointed out by Henning, foo\bar works fine. foo\*.txt doesn't though.

[Henning Tietgens]

*foo\bar*

IMO there is no need to escape something...

[C_ Faysal]

{ need to be escaped afaik..otherwise a line break will appear :(

i mean like blablabla{1,2}

this will be saved as

blablabla

{1,2}

blablabla\{1,2\} will show up correctly

[Henning Tietgens]

Yes, but *foo\bar* is working perfectly.


[Bogdan_Calmac]

Yes, it works. It seems that I picked the wrong example. Try foo\*.txt. This will not work.

In this case:

• one backslash escapes the * which is a special character
• two backslashes mean new line (this is unfortunate)