Here is a list of the characters that may need to be escaped with the \ character according to MarkdownGuide.org:
\ ` * _ { } [ ] < > ( ) # + - . ! |Characters that must be escaped:
- The single backtick:
`- The left curly brace:
{
Fun fact! Astro can’t actually render this character at all yet! This pull request will fix that, by the time you read this. Thanks Jon! ;)
Characters that can render without escaping, but only if they do not appear in a position where they’d usually have a “function” in Markdown:
-
* (unless it occurs at the beginning of a line, or starting a line in a list item, in which case it is treated like a bullet) Note: _edf does not need any escaping unless there is a second _ somewhere later that occurs without a space in front of it.
-
_Also needs no escaping provided that a second _ does not touch any text characters to “close” it.
-
# needs to be escaped if it starts a line but # does need to be escaped
-
[and], (and),
-
< and > (but,
<and>does not render any visible text) -
+ is only an issue in positions where it may be interpeted as a bullet
-
- is similarly an issue at the beginning of a line when it may be interepreted as a bullet, (or multiple --- in succession as a horizontal line)
-
| will need to be escaped in markdown tables, so it is not interpreted as a new column, and can also be written as
| -
. ! } \