How do you escape brackets when using SpriteFont?

Backslash \

You need it only if you have open and closed brackets like: \[] or \[hello]

It should be working inside the tags. This "[scale=2]Hello \[scale] [/scale]" gives me "Hello [scale]"

Say, how about this. I need to print something like: "[ OR 3" But, I need the OR to have its own color.

• This: \[ [color=#FFFF00] OR [/color] 3
• Will print: [ [color=#FFFF00] OR 3
• This: \[ [] [color=#FFFF00] OR [/color] 3
• Will print: [ [] OR 3

So, it seems like it it wants to escape a complete tag before its done escaping.

This is a Spritefont.. I'm contemplating adding a fake character for the [. Any other thoughts?

It looks like '[' is possibly a reserved character. -> SpriteFont: Set text to "\[]" & "[color=#FFFF00] OR [/color] 3"

Will print :

[] OR (in yellow) 3

In between quotes, at the beginning of the sentence "[]" does display : []

Only having "[" does not do the job.

Ashley would you have more information on the subject ?

It's a bug. "\[ [color=#FFFF00] OR [/color] 3" should still apply the color tag.

In general things like this should be reported to the issue tracker. But I could reproduce this and adjusted the parser so it should be fixed in the next release.