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Use Safe Syntax in Mermaid Charts

Assure your Mermaid Charts render by avoiding unsafe characters and syntax while writing technical documentation

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reminders/Use-Safe-Syntax-in-Mermaid-Charts.md
Authors
Michael Staton
Augmented with
Windsurf Cascade on GPT 4.1
Tags
Workflow · Filesystem-Observers

Logic:

The space between “A[string]” —> “D[string]” the brackets cannot have slashes, periods, or brackets. In some cases, they can be surrounded by quotes INSIDE the square brackets, or can be escaped. Not sure which yet.