This reverts commit df97a929affe1527755f95a1be73da9a8f7a87c3. The commit implemented a very simple way of escaping by simply putting a backslash in front of every character allowing custom formatting.
The reason for this revert is a bug in Discord Markdown formatting:
Inside masked links, instead of hiding the escape backslashes like everywhere else, it instead shows them.
There is no way to prevent formatting inside masked links.
For example it works in GitHub Markdown:
*format* -> format\*escaped\* -> *escaped*
[*format*](http://a.b) -> format[\*wtfdiscord\*](http://a.b) -> *wtfdiscord*
This reverts commit df97a929affe1527755f95a1be73da9a8f7a87c3. The commit implemented a very simple way of escaping by simply putting a backslash in front of every character allowing custom formatting.
The reason for this revert is a bug in Discord Markdown formatting: Inside masked links, instead of hiding the escape backslashes like everywhere else, it instead shows them. There is no way to prevent formatting inside masked links.
I reported a bug to Discord using their bug report tool. I also looked around in different places and it seems they keep this bug for "security reasons" https://github.com/discord/discord-api-docs/issues/6185#issuecomment-1666006809 , even if all other Markdowns do it right.
For example it works in GitHub Markdown:
*format*-> format\*escaped\*-> *escaped*[*format*](http://a.b)-> format[\*wtfdiscord\*](http://a.b)-> *wtfdiscord*