# 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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It’s a known problem in Markdown, and can’t be fixed unless you can change the Markdown parser

> **[CJK and bold tags \*\* possibly complex issue?](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/cjk-and-bold-tags-possibly-complex-issue/4034)**
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> There is a previous thread from 2020: This highlights the case I run into in present. As background: I’m dealing primarily with Chinese, Japanese and Arabic but with people on the team from each respective area, and they are fortunately fluent...

And my workaround is to use `<span></span>`

` **是的。** <span></span>对的。` **是的。** 对的。

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