Feature request: Change italics character
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Consider changing italics character from single asterisk (
*) to underscore (_).Current Markdown definitions and pre-processors recognizes both single asterisk (
*) and underscore (_) and converts them correctly to<em>element. However, certain Markdown processors may fail, when italics and bold appears in the same place (for example you use italics for entire phrase and additionally bold two last characters, which results in having three asterisks at the end of sentence —***.).An example of such failing Markdown processor are comments in StackExchange network. If you’re using Markdown processor from Jetpack, it seems to be handling this situation correctly, but when an user would use another Markdown processor in WordPress, this may potentially fail.
This is a rare situation, but happens. Changing single asterisk (
*) to underscore (_) would change nothing in your plugin (both are valid), but would make life of some users easier.Not mentioning, that it is much easier and faster to find all these characters in a long text, if italics and bold are NOT using the same character.
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