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Alex, if we did what you suggest, we would not detect the underlined in your very own example, because it's followed by a "." and not a space:
> But it could also be *bold* or _underlined_.

Ditto with ",", ":", "?"; "!" etc.pp., That's why we allow all alphanum characters as delimiter before/after the *. Note that want to specifically allow "Please go *here*: ..." as well. We do require that the next character is a letter, which avoids too many false positives.

However, it's clear that this heuristic cannot be correct in all cases, that's why we leave the "*" and "/" in the text. I think you manually changed a hidden preference to remove the "*" and "/". This is not the default, for exactly this reason. If you enable this, you need to accept the consequences.

More info: https://www.bucksch.org/1/projects/mozilla/16507/

Alex, if we did what you suggest, we would not detect the underlined in your very own example, because it's followed by a "." and not a space:
```
But it could also be *bold* or _underlined_.
```

Ditto with ",", ":", "?"; "!" etc.pp., That's why we allow all alphanum characters as delimiter before/after the *. Note that want to specifically allow "Please go *here*: ..." as well. We do require that the next character is a letter, which avoids too many false positives.

However, it's clear that this heuristic cannot be correct in all cases, that's why we leave the "*" and "/" in the text. I think you manually changed a hidden preference to remove the "*" and "/". This is not the default, for exactly this reason. If you enable this, you need to accept the consequences.

More info: https://www.bucksch.org/1/projects/mozilla/16507/

Alex, if we did what you suggest, we would not detect the underlined in your very own example, because it's followed by a "." and not a space:
```
But it could also be *bold* or _underlined_.
```

So, your suggestion would fix a rare false positive, but create many, very common false negatives, as your own example shows.

Ditto with ",", ":", "?"; "!" etc.pp. That's why we allow all alphanum characters as delimiter before/after the *. Note that want to specifically allow "Please go *here*: ..." as well. We do require that the next character is a letter, which avoids too many false positives.

However, it's clear that this heuristic cannot be correct in all cases, that's why we leave the "*" and "/" in the text. I think you manually changed a hidden preference to remove the "*" and "/". This is not the default, for exactly this reason. If you enable this, you need to accept the consequences.

More info: https://www.bucksch.org/1/projects/mozilla/16507/