Automatic link creation fails with backslash at the end of the title (and other characters)

I "fixed" this a long time ago. Scare quotes because I cheated; here's the relevant snippet from the code:

public static class MarkdownMaker { /// <summary> /// Returns a [markdown](http://link) that, when run through markdown, creates HTML /// where linkText is displayed exactly as given. In other words, an asterisk in linkText /// is visible as an asterisk to the user (and cannot cause unwanted italicization), /// a closing bracket in linkText doesn't break the link, but is actually visible as /// a closing bracket, etc. If markdownMini is true, it's for putting it in comments, /// otherwise it's for posts. /// </summary> public static string Link(string linkText, string url, bool markdownMini) { // ... if (markdownMini) { // ... // there is absolutely no way to end a comment link with a backslash // -- it would always escape the closing "]". So we're using an ugly // unicode hack -- U+2216 is Set Minus, which looks closest to a regular // backslash if (linkText.EndsWith(@"\")) linkText = linkText.Substring(0, linkText.Length - 1) + "\u2216"; // ... }