Markdown italic indicator interpreted incorrectly

Create a markdown file containing:

blog: [sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/09/the-shameful-fraud-of-sorting-for-youth-meritocracy.html](http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2014/09/the-shameful-fraud-of-sorting-for-youth-meritocracy.html)

and open it in VSC. You will see the text between the two underscores (in seths_blog) rendered in bold. This makes a long page containing URLs with ‘_’ unreadable.

The underscore should make the text italic like here. Instead inside a word (one_two_three) it makes the ‘two’ text bold (this does not happen here, but happens in VSC).

I have "markdown.extension.italic.indicator": "*" If that matters.

Thanks for considering! mario

What is the problem?

Text between two underscores inside a word is rendered as bold.

How can I reproduce it?

See above

Is there any error message in the console?

No

[yzhang-gh]

It should be fixed in the dev build.

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Not really. The URL part is fixed. But there are conflicts in the alt text part.

[crystalfp]

Don’t worry too much. I can live without them after turning off plainTheme. Thanks!