Telegram does not escape some markdown characters

Question

Telegram does not escape some markdown characters, for example:

• This works fine

  _test\_test_

• But this return parse error

  *test\*test*

What I do wrong?

Answer 1

String escapedMsg = toEscapeMsg
    .replace("_", "\\_")
    .replace("*", "\\*")
    .replace("[", "\\[")
    .replace("`", "\\`");

Do not escape ] character. If [ is escaped, ] is treated like a normal character.