diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/resyntax.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/resyntax.h
index 49b8363c4e..bad95c1db8 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/resyntax.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/resyntax.h
@@ -125,7 +125,7 @@ follows; some more constraints are described later, under
 
 The lookahead constraints may not contain back references (see later), and all
 parentheses within them are considered non-capturing. A RE may not end with
-"\".
+\"\\\".
 
 
 @section overview_resyntax_bracket Bracket Expressions
diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/xrc_format.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/xrc_format.h
index 1dd41aa001..06c06951a8 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/xrc_format.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/xrc_format.h
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ the following table:
 @itemdef{ "\n", line break }
 @itemdef{ "\r", carriage return }
 @itemdef{ "\t", tab }
-@itemdef{ "\\", "\" }
+@itemdef{ \"\\\", backslash }
 @endDefList
 
 By default, the text is translated using wxLocale::GetTranslation() before
@@ -2952,10 +2952,10 @@ files with older values of @c version attribute of @c \<resource\>).
 
 @subsection overview_xrcformat_pre_v2530 Versions Before 2.5.3.0
 
-Version 2.5.3.0 introduced C-like handling of "\\" in text. In older versions,
+Version 2.5.3.0 introduced C-like handling of \"\\\\\" in text. In older versions,
 "\n", "\t" and "\r" escape sequences were replaced with respective characters
-in the same matter it's done in C, but "\\" was left intact instead of being
-replaced with single "\", as one would expect. Starting with 2.5.3.0, all of
+in the same matter as it's done in C, but \"\\\\\" was left intact instead of being
+replaced with a single \"\\\", as one would expect. Starting with 2.5.3.0, all of
 them are handled in C-like manner.