diff --git a/xwiki-rendering-syntaxes/xwiki-rendering-syntax-event/src/main/java/org/xwiki/rendering/internal/renderer/event/EventsChainingRenderer.java b/xwiki-rendering-syntaxes/xwiki-rendering-syntax-event/src/main/java/org/xwiki/rendering/internal/renderer/event/EventsChainingRenderer.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/xwiki-rendering-syntaxes/xwiki-rendering-syntax-event/src/main/java/org/xwiki/rendering/internal/renderer/event/EventsChainingRenderer.java
+++ b/xwiki-rendering-syntaxes/xwiki-rendering-syntax-event/src/main/java/org/xwiki/rendering/internal/renderer/event/EventsChainingRenderer.java
@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ public class EventsChainingRenderer extends AbstractChainingPrintRenderer
     @Override
     public void onSpecialSymbol(char symbol)
     {
-        getPrinter().println("onSpecialSymbol [" + symbol + "]");
+        getPrinter().println("onSpecialSymbol [" + getEscaped(Character.toString(symbol)) + "]");
     }
 
     @Override
[Misc] Also escape chars in special symbol event