# When using the italics button in the UI you can not properly italicise words in Chinese
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-using-the-italics-button-in-the-ui-you-can-not-properly-italicise-words-in-chinese/109957
**Category:** Feature
**Tags:** pr-welcome
**Created:** [2월 24, 2019, 3:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-using-the-italics-button-in-the-ui-you-can-not-properly-italicise-words-in-chinese/109957 "2019-02-24T15:30:39Z")
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### Author:  [@seanblue](https://meta.discourse.org/u/seanblue)
#### Post date: [2월 24, 2019, 3:30오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-using-the-italics-button-in-the-ui-you-can-not-properly-italicise-words-in-chinese/109957/1 "2019-02-24T15:30:40Z")
In Chinese all words are rendered without spaces between them. Eg:
我喜欢精灵
Contains multiple words.
When you use the “italics” button in the UI to italicise a word we produce this markdown variant.
`我_喜欢_精灵`
This is unfortunate cause the spec allows for the following which would work as expected:
`我*喜欢*精灵`
Can we amend the italics button to use `*` if you have a section highlighted that butts against another letter.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2월 24, 2019, 9:53오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-using-the-italics-button-in-the-ui-you-can-not-properly-italicise-words-in-chinese/109957/13 "2019-02-24T21:53:14Z")
Sure we are fine with the change described in the op, #pr-welcome @fantasticfears if you feel like it.
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2월 26, 2019, 3:10오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-using-the-italics-button-in-the-ui-you-can-not-properly-italicise-words-in-chinese/109957/14 "2019-02-26T03:10:29Z")
3 posts were split to a new message: [Sam stop editing my posts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/sam-stop-editing-my-posts/110090)
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### Author:  [@fantasticfears](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fantasticfears)
#### Post date: [2월 27, 2019, 10:05오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-using-the-italics-button-in-the-ui-you-can-not-properly-italicise-words-in-chinese/109957/15 "2019-02-27T10:05:14Z")
It’s merged now. [FIX: use \* when apply italics in the editor instead of \_ by erickguan · Pull Request #7063 · discourse/discourse · GitHub](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/pull/7063)
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [2월 27, 2019, 10:16오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/when-using-the-italics-button-in-the-ui-you-can-not-properly-italicise-words-in-chinese/109957/16 "2019-02-27T10:16:47Z")