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How can I prevent that Jira misunderstands pairs of "-" as strikethrough markup?

Christoph Stritt November 27, 2025

I enter text (for example in German:
'Vor- und Nachteile meiner "xy"-Lösung'
and Jira misunderstands the "-" after "Vor" and the "-" before "Lösung" as a pair of special characters so that the middle part of my text becomes strike-through text:
'Vor und Nachteile meiner "xy"Lösung'

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Christos Markoulatos
Community Champion
November 27, 2025

@Christoph Stritt 

here as some options

Replace - with (en dash) or (non-breaking hyphen):

Vor– und Nachteile meiner "xy"–Lösung

Wrap the text in {noformat} or {{code}}

{noformat}
Vor- und Nachteile meiner "xy"-Lösung
{noformat}

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