I stumbled over some irregularities with how the Jira reader treats backslashes escaping special chars within an URL, I hope you can help:

I am using Pandoc 2.13.1

1. Starting with this HTML:

<p>https://example.com/{*}info/</p>

2. Let pandoc transform this from HTML to Jira Markdown yields this:

https://example.com/\{\*\}info/

I suppose (?), this is correct: All special characters are being escaped.

3. Now use pandoc to transform this from Jira Markdown back to HTML yields this:

<p><a href="https://example.com/\{\*\}info/">https://example.com/\{\*\}info/</a></p>

... and here, the backslashes escaping some special chars should have been removed.

4. Because if this text gets transformed back to Jira Markdown, now we end up with this:

[https://example.com/\\{\\*\\}info/|https://example.com/\%7B\*\%7Dinfo/]

where the escaping backslashes from step 3 have been replaced by html entities, end all spechial chars denoting those entities have themselves been escaped by a backslash - and they will recursively be replaced on the next pass-through, increasing the mess ever more.

Thanks! :-)