• toynbee@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    In the spirit of heeding your username, I shall engage.

    In markdown, if you use a single asterisk it doesn’t mean much unless it’s part of a list. However, if you use two, it will italicize the text between them. Britain, for example, would bring Brtan because the T and A (yes, I’m aware of the abbreviation) would be between them.

    edit: Seven days later, I saw this post again. I realize now you weren’t talking about the formatting but how many instances of the offending character to replace, like non global stream editing or sort of like ƒ.