Tdesktop: ***** becomes *

[rehacktive]

Steps to reproduce

1. Write on any conversation (5 times "")
2. Send it
3. You will see just one *

Expected behaviour

Tell us what should happen
You should see *

Actual behaviour

Tell us what happens instead
You see *

Configuration

Operating system:
OsX
Version of Telegram Desktop:
1.1.15
Used theme:
dark

Logs:

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[AliSawari]

Yeah that's true.
the same goes for _ (underline)

[AliSawari]

and also seven of ` (backtics) will be a single on

[AliSawari]

I guess that's because of the markdown feature :thinking:

[sovietspaceship]

yes lol

[nyuszika7h]

Yeah, there's no way to escape formatting characters in the official clients as far as I know. In the bot API, single * and _ are used and you can escape them with a backslash (\). You can use @bold in inline mode with the "Custom Markdown" option. Note that inline bots' responses are limited to 512 characters.

There's another caveat: you can't escape triple backticks as far as I can tell. If you need an even amount of triple backticks inside monospace text, you can use @bold with the "Fixedsys" option. But that won't work for an odd amount. Bot API allows HTML which is straightforward, so you could use a HTML formatting bot and escape special formatting characters as HTML entities (I don't know any existing ones off the top of my had).

[Lonami]

This is because Telegram Desktop is using ** (and __) as delimiters when entering bold and italics text as @AliSawari said (markdown feature). So it's not actually a bug, ***** is just ** around * → *.

[stek29]

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