# Al usar el botón de cursiva en la interfaz, no se pueden cursivar correctamente las palabras en chino

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**Category:** Feature\
**Tags:** pr-welcome\
**Created:** [24 Febrero, 2019 15:30 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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**Post date:** [24 Febrero, 2019 15:30 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")

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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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