[ and ] as well as similar named entities like   do not work correctly in the parser, but are displayed as apparently working in preview.
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Thanks for reporting this! It took me a bit to understand what exactly this bug report is about, as there were no steps to reproduce but two links to look at results. Plus "Preview" can mean a few things... As this is about the preview of an edit before you publish an edit, I'm going to remove the Page-Previews tag. :)
Steps to reproduce:
- Use the 2017 wikitext editor mode of VisualEditor
- Paste the following three lines:
* da m² * da m² * dam²
- Click "Save Page"
- Click "Show Preview"
- See the second line is rendered as da m²
- Click "Save Page"
- See the second line is rendered as da m²
It's an interesting question whether to make the edit preview not interpret these HTML entities correctly, or whether to make the parser not encode the ampersand into  . But indeed, the behavior should be consistent.