/learn gives incorrect response

[Jenna1337]

The command /learn formattest2 \\*_test_* prints out the plain text "\**test**" instead of "\*test*"

[Jenna1337]

The conversation: https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/138769/conversation/oakbot-bug

[mangstadt]

I looks like this is due to a quirk in the way Stack Overflow Chat converts Markdown to HTML. OakBot appears to be correctly converting the HTML of the message to Markdown. In fact, if you manually post OakBot's HTML-to-Markdown conversion (\\**test*\*) into the chat, the message is briefly displayed with the italic formatting, and then the italics are removed after a few moments. This suggests that the SO Chat client code and SO Chat server code have slightly different Markdown-to-HTML conversion algorithms.

Another interesting side-note is that using asterisks instead of underscores produces a slightly different result.

Test 1
Entered by user: \\*_test_*
Converted to HTML by SO Chat: \*<i>test</i>*
Converted back to Markdown by OakBot: \\**test*\*

Test 2
Entered by user: \\**test**
Converted to HTML by SO Chat: \*<i>test*</i>
Converted back to Markdown by OakBot: \\**test\**

[Jenna1337]

You know you can get the plain text the user entered by appending ?plain=true to the message url, right? e.g., https://chat.stackoverflow.com/message/38120049?plain=true

[mangstadt]

Thanks @Jenna3715! Didn't know about that!

Fixed in a7c3284.