Not sure where to send this question, so my apologies for any misdirection...

There seems to be some discrepancy in the syntax specification for release notes, at least with regards to backslashes.

Take JDK-8304995 for example. The end result is supposed to contain an example that looks like this:

    public class Test {
        interface Cafe\u0301 {
        }
        interface Caf\u00e9 {
        }
    }

Note the single backslashes in there.

The corresponding JIRA issue description contains only single backslashes.

The JDK developer's guide says: "While the markdown won’t be rendered in JBS, you can use dingus to see what the release note will look like."

When the JIRA description text is copied and pasted into dingus (or the other dingus) the single blackslashes appear correctly.

However, in the current release notes the backslashes are missing.

It appears that the statement "you can use dingus to see what the release note will look like" is not really correct.

Where is the breakdown here?

Thanks,

-Archie

Archie L. Cobbs