As designed Markdown won't escape backticks with backslash

[cbase_user]

Affected version

2.1.x

The Documentation I base my expectations for markdown parsers on:

https://enterprise.github.com/downloads/en/markdown-cheatsheet.pdf

Well backticks (`) should be escapeable with backslashes but that doesn't work properly:

``foobar`` works fine and causes iCODE BB Code around foobar:
foobar

What doesn't work is \`\`foobar\`\` which should print every backtick without the backslahes and foobar without any BB-Code wrapped around it.
\\[ICODE]foobar\\[/ICODE]

nor does \``foobar`` prevent BB wrapping
\foobar

This also applies for triple backticks for CODE-Blocks

Backslashes can escape ">" for Quotes as expected
\>
\>


Marking @Steffen because his board was vandalized to find this bug.

 

[Chris D]

We only support a very small subset of Markdown. While Markdown support may improve and expand in the future, for now any limitations are known about and/or intentional.

For now, the best way to escape such things is with the PLAIN BB code.

This:
[PLAIN]`foobar`[/PLAIN]

Produces:
`foobar`