# False recognition of numbered lists

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/false-recognition-of-numbered-lists/49554
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [September 1, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/false-recognition-of-numbered-lists/49554 "2016-09-01T12:44:53Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![Silvanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/silvanus/32/62831_2.png) [@Silvanus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Silvanus)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 12:44pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/false-recognition-of-numbered-lists/49554/1 "2016-09-01T12:44:53Z")

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I don’t know if this is a bug or a feature, but when people are writing especially dates, it seems that the text is changed into a numbered list even when it is not desired.

Reproduction of the bug:

```
31. test

```

1. test

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 12:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/false-recognition-of-numbered-lists/49554/2 "2016-09-01T12:50:05Z")

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There are countless topics on this already and they are all marked as #markdown-it-review and will be looked at again when Discourse moves to CommonMark.

But in short, you need to escape the `.` using `\.` if you want it to retain your number

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### Author: ![Silvanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/silvanus/32/62831_2.png) [@Silvanus](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Silvanus)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 12:51pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/false-recognition-of-numbered-lists/49554/3 "2016-09-01T12:51:32Z")

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I tried finding this, but didn’t manage to with the three first searches… I know, I’m lazy…

> [@cpradio](#):
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> But in short, you need to escape the . using . if you want it to retain your number

Thank you! I’ll let my users know 🙂

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### Author: ![cpradio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/cpradio/32/4970_2.png) [@cpradio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/cpradio)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 12:52pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/false-recognition-of-numbered-lists/49554/4 "2016-09-01T12:52:11Z")

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Here is at least one of them  
[https://meta.discourse.org/t/ordered-list-mis-numbering/28164/](https://meta.discourse.org/t/ordered-list-mis-numbering/28164/)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [September 1, 2016, 11:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/false-recognition-of-numbered-lists/49554/5 "2016-09-01T23:23:41Z")

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