# Punctuation marks causing Markdown bold display to fail

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown/407071>\
**Category:** Bug\
**Created:** [July 8, 2026, 12:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown/407071 "2026-07-08T12:58:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![renato](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/renato/32/383632_2.png) [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)\
**Post date:** [July 18, 2026, 2:01am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/markdown/407071/10 "2026-07-18T02:01:51Z")

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This is expected, it only avoids breaking the intentional emphasis from the text with the compromise of expelling the (almost unnoticeable) punctuation from the emphasis during Markdown serialization.

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