May I use [] square brackets and : colon in article title?

[kuanyui]

May I use square brackets [] or colon : in article title?

I often need to write a title like [Emacs] Write A Major Mode or Emacs: Write A Major Mode, but they will cause error when processing article:

square brackets:

00:23:03.176 ERROR Process failed: _posts/emacs-write-a-major-mode.md
JS-YAML: can not read a block mapping entry; a multiline key may not be an implicit key at line 2, column 5:
date: 2015-03-07 15:42:36
    ^

colon:

JS-YAML: incomplete explicit mapping pair; a key node is missed at line 1, column 14:
title: Emacs: Write A Major Mode

If use a escape \ before bracket, it will be rendered as explicitly \[Emacs\]

With earlier version Hexo, at least, the later one is acceptable by processor.

hexo: 3.0.0
os: Linux 3.11.10-25-desktop linux x64
http_parser: 1.0
node: 0.10.29
v8: 3.14.5.9
ares: 1.9.0-DEV
uv: 0.10.27
zlib: 1.2.3
modules: 11
openssl: 1.0.1h

[celsomiranda]

Have you tried to write the frontmatter like this:

title: "[Emacs] Write A Major"

or

title: '[Emacs] Write A Major'

[kuanyui]

Yes, it works! I didn't find this ˊ・w・ˋ Thanks a lot!

[practicalli-johnny]

You could use the - character. So you could have a title in the form Emacs - Write a Major Mode

Thanks

[nkcoder]

I have the same problem, thank you!