On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, dmg wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 11:40 PM, Nicolas Goaziou <mail@nicolasgoaziou.fr>
> wrote:
>
>>
>> A star at the beginning of a line is always a headline.

[...]

>
> ​Thank you. I guess the issue is then with org-babel.
>
> I am running a babel script that generates, as one of its line * in the
> front:
>
> ​#+BEGIN_SRC sh
> echo "* Hello"
> #+END_SRC
>
> #+RESULTS:
> #+begin_example
> * Hello
> #+end_example
>
> ​In that case, should babel be the one escaping the * in the RESULTS block?

Is that *really* what it did?

When I run your example, I get:

#+RESULTS:
: * Hello

and this exports (with the `:exports results' header) to html wrapped 
in a <pre class="example"> container:

<pre class="example">
* Hello
</pre>

using Org 9.0.5.

Without that header the src code gets wrapped in a <pre> container.

So there must be something in/about your setup you haven't mentioned.

HTH,

Chuck