Hello,
first of all, this is my first attempted contribution to an Internet
standard, so I do apologize if the form is a bit off.
That said, I was implementing a parser for "XEP-0393: Message Styling",
and I ran into the issue that not much is defined in the way of escape
characters.
In Gajim, for instance, the sequence
*hello*
becomes bold, the sequence
\*hello*
does not, but the sequence
\\*hello*
also does not.
In many applications, preceding a \ with another \ escapes the latter \,
making it so that the escape character itself is escaped, and therefore
the * that creates the emphasis span would not be.
However, the standard does not mention any rule regarding this (and
Gajim does not do what I expect), so it is perhaps a good idea to add a
note about this before making it final.
Kind regards,
Werner