{"action":"reopened","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/showdownjs/showdown/issues/214","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/showdownjs/showdown/issues/214/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/showdownjs/showdown/issues/214/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/showdownjs/showdown/issues/214/events","html_url":"https://github.com/showdownjs/showdown/issues/214","id":114012996,"number":214,"title":"Escaped markdown characters seem to break parsing","user":{"login":"hbCyber","id":7698618,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/7698618?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/hbCyber","html_url":"https://github.com/hbCyber","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hbCyber/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hbCyber/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hbCyber/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hbCyber/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hbCyber/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hbCyber/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hbCyber/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hbCyber/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/hbCyber/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/showdownjs/showdown/labels/Bug","name":"Bug","color":"fc2929"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":{"login":"tivie","id":1608730,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1608730?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivie","html_url":"https://github.com/tivie","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivie/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivie/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivie/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivie/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivie/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivie/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivie/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivie/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tivie/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"milestone":null,"comments":3,"created_at":"2015-10-29T09:40:29Z","updated_at":"2015-10-30T08:51:01Z","closed_at":null,"body":"I'm using Showdown with the strikethrough option enabled.\r\n\r\nExample input that works:\r\n`Your friend ~~[**test**](www.google.com)~~ (~~[*@test*](www.google.com)~~) updated his/her description.`\r\n\r\nCorrectly results in:\r\n`<p>Your friend <del><a href=\"www.google.com\"><strong>test</strong></a></del> (<del><a href=\"www.google.com\"><em>@test</em></a></del>) updated his/her description.</p>`\r\n\r\nHowever, this input, where the username includes an asterisk, won't work:\r\n`Your friend ~~[**test\\***](www.google.com)~~ (~~[*@test*](www.google.com)~~) updated his/her description.`\r\n\r\nIt will result in messed up `<del>` tags and leaves some `~~` characters in the result:\r\n`<p>Your friend ~~<a href=\"www.google.com\"><strong>test*</strong></a><del> (</del><a href=\"www.google.com\"><em>@test</em></a>~~) updated his/her description.</p>`\r\n"}}