element-hq / element-hq/element-web
Markdown parsing failure involving dash (`-`) and escaped underscore (`\_`)
- Dominant language
- TypeScript
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Description
### Steps to reproduce
1. Input
```
-
\_
```
2. Send
3. Message that gets sent: `
Another case:
```
a
a -> b
\_
```
results in a single collapsed paragraph:
```
a a -> b _
```
### Outcome
#### What did you expect?
Message should be sent as is.
#### What happened instead?
Message is corrupted.
### Operating system
Arch Linux
### Application version
Element version: 1.11.86 Crypto version: Rust SDK 0.7.2 (517d99b), Vodozemac 0.7.0
### How did you install the app?
Arch Linux repo
### Homeserver
termina.org.uk
### Will you send logs?
No
Contributor guide
Research direction
Reproduce both Markdown inputs in Element Web and compare the rendered and sent messages with the expected text. Trace the Markdown parsing path responsible for list markers, escaped underscores, and collapsed paragraphs; done means both examples are sent unchanged without corrupted HTML or formatting.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- typescript
- Domain
- frontend
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100