RocketChat / RocketChat/Rocket.Chat
can't escape special characters when composing messages.
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Description
right now the subset of markup the Rocket.Chat uses doesn't seem to be able to handle escaping control characters.
_ , *, ~,`[], etc. are special characters. If you wish to include those symbols in a message and not use them as control characters, you can't.
ex:
- The files you are looking for are named: *.bat, *.sh, or *.py.
Will be transformed into:
- The files you are looking for are named: .bat, .sh, or *.py.
An this text:
- this is an italicized *: _*_
becomes:
- this is an italicized :
when it should have been:
- this is an italicized *: *
When will Rocket.Chat have proper support for markdown, including the ability (as we have here in Github) to escape control characters?
thanks.
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Research direction
No files or tests are identified in the issue. Start by locating Rocket.Chat's message markup parser or composer and reproduce the provided escaping examples; done means literal special characters remain literal while intended formatting continues to render correctly.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- markdown
- Domain
- content
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
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- Active
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