Asterisks italicizing text

  • A simple question that I’m hoping someone can help me out with (please and thanks!) …I couldn’t seem to find another post about this on the forum.

    Is there a way to prevent text from becoming italicized if placed in between asterisks? Because that’s what it is doing for me at the moment. Not sure why.

    I’m running version 1.5.2 and my page’s charset is iso-8859-1, if that makes any diff.

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  • What happens if you change the charset to UTF-8? I use asterisks all the time (to represent *thinking* *laughing* etc.) and neither my 1.5.2 blogs nor my 2.0 ones italicize it. I use UTF-8 exclusively.

    Also, are you using some form of wysiwyg, Textile or something?

    Thread Starter bookyeti

    (@bookyeti)

    Hi again, vkaryl. ??

    The reason why I’m using iso-8859-1, instead of the more versatile UTF-8, is that when I imported my Greymatter files in charset UTF-8, I got all sorts of weird characters in my posts. So I had to change it to iso-8859-1, which seemed to solve the problem.

    (Not using any WSIWYG or anything else, btw.)

    Hello!

    Well, that’s logical – probably GM was set in iso-8859-1, and with an importer would have become fairly problematic….

    What happens if you insert the asterisks as the actual UTF-8 code for them: & # 4 2 ; (without interstitial spaces – which keeps it from simply displaying the asterisk here)? Or the iso-8859-1 code: & 4 2 ; (without the spaces – and without the # sign) or maybe try even the probably now-deprecated entity name: & ast ; (leave out spaces again)….

    Is the Markdown plugin active by any chance?

    Thread Starter bookyeti

    (@bookyeti)

    Hi Moshu, yes the Markdown plugin IS active. If I deactivate it, will it change this? And will it change anything else?

    Vkaryl, I will check what you’ve asked….

    Thread Starter bookyeti

    (@bookyeti)

    Alrighty. Deactivated the Markdown plugin and that seems to have solved the problem. Thanks for your help, both of you. ??

    Glad to hear it! (Markdown was the other wysiwyg thing that goes along with Textile, the name of which I couldn’t remember the other day…. glad moshu came up with it!)

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