diff --git a/components/richmemo/richmemortf.pas b/components/richmemo/richmemortf.pas
index 4748fb236..7bac9f54d 100644
--- a/components/richmemo/richmemortf.pas
+++ b/components/richmemo/richmemortf.pas
@@ -357,6 +357,8 @@ begin
 
       AddText( langproc(bt) );
     end;
+  end else if (length(txt)=2) and (txt[1]='\') and (txt[2] in ['\','{','}']) then begin
+    AddText(txt[2]);
   end else begin
     AddText(txt);
   end;