Table doesn't show correctly in GitHub due to problematic priority of | over ` about win32-console-docs HOT 2 CLOSED

Thanks for letting me know. I've worked around the problem by replacing "FOO | BAR" with "FOO and BAR". I prefer the original syntax, but this is easier. My guess is that the change was undesired, and it's a regression in GitHub's Markdown processing.

This issue is interesting: erusev/parsedown#184. The Markdown in the bug report does the same thing I did, and it doesn't work. But then the issue is fixed, and if you paste the bug report's Markdown into http://parsedown.org/demo, it works as expected.

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This is probably more relevant, https://github.com/blog/2333-a-formal-spec-for-github-flavored-markdown.

I suspect the change was intentional. Apparently the proper fix is:

`FOO \| BAR`

Include a pipe in a cell’s content by escaping it, including inside other inline spans:

Example 191

| f\|oo  |
| ------ |
| b `\|` az |
| b **\|** im |

https://github.github.com/gfm/

I see that Parsedown will mishandle this fix, but I haven't found any evidence that GitHub ever used Parsedown.

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