Consistent escaping in wikilink titles

Feature requests
1

Previously raised as a bug report, but I was redirected here.

Problem

Escaping characters in wikilink title is inconsistent with how it works everywhere else.

ab\cd\#ef
[ab\cd\#ef](https://forum.obsidian.md/c/feature-requests/)
[[Start Here|ab\cd\#ef]]

Produces text looking

abcd#ef
abcd#ef
ab\cd\ef

Use case

Example use case for proper escaping is noting ranges of episodes or issues in the title (Amazing Spider Man (1963) #121-123), since without escaping “#”, a tag would be created.

Proposed solution

Make escaping work like everywhere else in the note.

2

This shouldn’t create a tag (and didn’t when I tried it) because number-only tags aren’t allowed. Tags - Obsidian Help

(The help post actually says a tag “must contain at least one non-numerical character”, and the dash would seem to qualify. I don’t know if that’s a bug or if it’s intentional that a tag with only numbers and a dash is invalid, but I think it’s sensible behavior).

It didn’t create a tag when I used valid tag text in a wikilink’s text, either.

Putting a valid tag in the text of a Markdown link (as in your second example if the backslash were removed) does add it to the tag index, so there is another inconsistency. I think it would be good to disallow that (but that’s another feature request).

3

related to Support Markdown markup in wikilink alias (like standard markdown links)

4

Dash qualifies and it does create a tag.

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5

A workaround if all else fails … the fullwidth number sign parses without being treated as a hash:

＃
FULLWIDTH NUMBER SIGN
Unicode: U+FF03, UTF-8: EF BC 83

## Markdown link
[markdown link](<Amazing Spider Man (1963) ＃121-123>)

## Wikilink
[[Amazing Spider Man (1963) ＃121-123]]
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6

Live Preview incorrectly highlights it as a tag but it’s not one. If you switch to Reading View, which renders more accurately, you’ll see it’s not highlighted as a tag. And if you search tag:121-123 you’ll get 0 results because it hasn’t been indexed as a tag.

(I didn’t notice the highlight until I saw your screenshot because I have a snippet that makes tags look like links).