// The point is that in code, these characters are literals,
// and lose their special Markdown meanings.
//
+
+ // Hakim: Escaping these causes issues in code blocks
+
// Encode all ampersands; HTML entities are not
// entities within a Markdown code span.
- text = text.replace(/&/g,"&");
+ // text = text.replace(/&/g,"&");
// Do the angle bracket song and dance:
- text = text.replace(/</g,"<");
- text = text.replace(/>/g,">");
+ // text = text.replace(/</g,"<");
+ // text = text.replace(/>/g,">");
// Now, escape characters that are magic in Markdown:
text = escapeCharacters(text,"\*_{}[]\\",false);