Udon treats *this* as <strong> instead of <em>

[Fang-]

Expected behavior is what you find on Github and most other places that support markdown-style formatting, where <strong> and <em> are distinguished by the amount of formatting characters around a string, rather than distinguishing between * and _. The fact that udon deviates from that is confusing and frustrating.

In other words:

Current: _this_ --> this *this* --> this

Expected/desired: *this*, _this_ --> this **this**, __this__ --> this

[ohAitch]

Udon is not markdown, and is intentionally trying to be simpler in a number of incompatible ways. (In this case, commonmark-spec parsing of nested foo bar is admittedly pretty hairy; but I generally agree that udon should never have been introduced and we should have stuck with real .md)

On Tue, Apr 16, 2019 at 1:37 PM Fang notifications@github.com wrote:

Expected behavior is what you find on Github and most other places that support markdown-style formatting, where and are distinguished by the amount of formatting characters around a string, rather than distinguishing between * and _. The fact that udon deviates from that is confusing and frustrating.

In other words:

Current: this --> this this --> this

Expected/desired: this, this --> this this, this --> this

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[rmariani]

I also perceived this to be an intentional simplification

[jtobin]

Markup in Keybase chat behaves similarly. I dig it.

[jtobin]

@Fang- Want to do anything with this one, i.e. propose a change more formally? Otherwise my closing finger is getting itchy..

[Fang-]

Seems like most others are fine with the way things are now. We can reopen if it comes up again.