Unable to Use Some Characters Like Backslash
Platform Notice: Data Center Only - This article only applies to Atlassian products on the Data Center platform.
Note that this KB was created for the Data Center version of the product. Data Center KBs for non-Data-Center-specific features may also work for Server versions of the product, however they have not been tested. Support for Server* products ended on February 15th 2024. If you are running a Server product, you can visit the Atlassian Server end of support announcement to review your migration options.
*Except Fisheye and Crucible
This is no longer an issue with Confluence Server & Data Center 7.x+
Symptoms
Some characters are used in the wiki markup body making them unusable by default. Using these characters in your pages doesn't work. If you try:
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\*.*OR
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\_A.it won't render, it will be shown as:
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*.*
OR
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_A.The "\" will escape the "*" the double backslash will break the line (confluence does not use \n to break line) and escape the underline "_".
Cause
Confluence uses these characters to render its own content.
Resolution
This is a limitation of the editor. Please refer CONFSERVER-2494. You can use {code} as a workaround.
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{code}
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