TelegramBots: Exception on sending message with underline character

i catch exception when i want to sending underline ‘_’ to bot

org.telegram.telegrambots.TelegramApiException: Error at sendmessage: 
Bad Request: Can't parse message text: Can't find end of the entity starting at byte offset 264

i find that happen when i had underline character in my message text it’s seems underline is a special character in bot API like as '' in java String that must be use ‘\’ for that how can i to resolve ?

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State: closed
Created 8 years ago
Comments: 16 (6 by maintainers)

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@KilluaFein if i’m not mistaken i had to scape with \\ instead! like \\_

hems on Aug 9, 2017


//should fail
String text = "My amazing text _ is really awesome";
sendMessage.setText(text);


//escape the character
String text = "My amazing text \\_ is really awesome";
sendMessage.setText(text);

Some explanations in a Java tutorial at Oracle

Clevero on Sep 14, 2017

For me scaping _ with \ isn’t working!

hems on Nov 3, 2016