Why does OSQA use markdown and not markdown2?

I think I remember it used to use markdown2. Why did it switch to markdown?

"The problem is with python-markdown not closely following the original perl spec. It implements the escape character on everything, instead of just a few specific chars." (Arlo)

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0	OSQA uses the markdown version supported by the default Django filter system. link answered 15 Jul '10, 10:19 rickross ♦♦ 12.5k●29●149●72 accept rate: 46%

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Markdown Basics

*italic* or _italic_
**bold** or __bold__
link:[text](http://url.com/ "title")
image?![alt text](/path/img.jpg "title")
numbered list: 1. Foo 2. Bar
to add a line break simply add two spaces to where you would like the new line to be.
basic HTML tags are also supported

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