Hmm, that's pretty weird:

Care must be taken with backslash-escapes though. These are not equivalent:

``text \ and \ backslashes``
:literal:`text \ and \ backslashes`

The backslashes in the first line are preserved (and do nothing), whereas the backslashes in the second line escape the following spaces.

-- http://docutils.sourceforge.net/docs/ref/rst/roles.html#literal

But I see that this is not the case on the symfony website, 👍 for this.

(this should get merged into the 2.1 branch)

Great cleanup - thanks Pedro!