How to escape backslash bracket (\[) in Markdown?

Question

How does one escape the \"backslash square brackets\" \\[ \\] sequence in Markdown for GitHub? The sequence produces a

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Answer 1

just write:

This is a __backslash with a square bracket__: \\\[.  

It works on github for me.

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Edit

Now that the question has been updated, here is an updated answer.
Just escape all characters, at the beginning and at the end:

foo \\\[something\\\] bar will produce => foo \[something\] bar

Works normally on github: http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=oh2xyp&s=6

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Edit 2

Just tried on a wiki... you're right, it doesn't work there. I guess it's because of the special meaning that constructs like [[foobar]] have in the wiki syntax.
I'd say your best shot is this: __\__ __[__ __something__ __\__ __]__ (without code backsticks).
Weirdly it doesn't work here, but it works on github wikis.

Still, if you think it's a bug, you should report it as they say here.