# Node-red-contrib-turndown - Escaping characters
**URL:** https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-turndown-escaping-characters/43228
**Category:** General
**Created:** [26 March 2021 09:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-turndown-escaping-characters/43228 "2021-03-26T09:15:37Z")
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### Author:  [@Djibril](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Djibril)
#### Post date: [26 March 2021 09:15 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-turndown-escaping-characters/43228/1 "2021-03-26T09:15:38Z")
Hi,
I would use node-red to create a bot able to grab specific info online through cheerio and send using telegram.
To do that, I would convert html to markdownV2, in order to maintain links and some formatting.
I tried to use node-red-contrib-turndown node, but - as the node effectively transforms formatting - I noticed that markdown special characters are not escaped:
Asterisk \*
Underscore \_
Curly braces { }
Square brackets
Brackets ( )
Hash #
Plus +
Minus -
Period .
Exclamation point !
So, if I try to send them to telegram, it crash because of errors in parsing.
Node has no configuration, so I don't know what to do... someone else had experienced this? Did I something wrong?
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### Author:  [@TotallyInformation](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/TotallyInformation)
#### Post date: [26 March 2021 13:23 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-turndown-escaping-characters/43228/2 "2021-03-26T13:23:30Z")
Telegram's interpretation of Markdown is extremely simplistic anyway and it fails with odd characters as I found out the hard way. I'm working at the moment but I'll see if I can find the details later. Just note that their v1 implementation is more forgiving than their v2. But v1 supports even less markup (which is why it is more forgiving)
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### Author:  [@Djibril](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/Djibril)
#### Post date: [29 March 2021 09:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-turndown-escaping-characters/43228/3 "2021-03-29T09:56:36Z")
I wrote a regex function that escapes special chars... Seems working for now
```auto
replace(/(\[[^\[\]]+\]\((http[^\[\]\(\)]+)\))|[_[\\\]()~>#+=|{}.!-]/gi, (x,y) => y ? y : '\\' + x);
```
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### Author:  [@system](https://discourse.nodered.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [12 April 2021 09:56 UTC](https://discourse.nodered.org/t/node-red-contrib-turndown-escaping-characters/43228/4 "2021-04-12T09:56:52Z")
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