How do I make part of a word bold using Markdown? [duplicate]

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Markdown handles inline bold text (within a word) incorrectly

I'm trying to use the following Markdown to make just the "Overflow" part of "StackOverflow Meta" bolded:

Stack**Overflow** Meta

But it creates the following instead:

StackOverflow Meta

Why?

@Lucifer: I do not want that space, I want them stay together. — Yishu Fang, Jul 22 '12 at 8:06
While this is a general problem (covered by KennyTM's link), note the name of the site, and by how it should be referred, is "Stack Overflow", not "StackOverflow" regardless of how you format "Overflow". — user149432, Jul 22 '12 at 8:19

Community · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-20 10:30:14Z

Use HTML. ~~Markdown requires a space before the **~~.

StackOverflow
Stack<b>Overflow</b>

Edit: just to update, as Markdown handles inline bold text (within a word) incorrectly has been fixed in 2014, OP's original code works now, no workaround needed:

StackOverflow
Stack**Overflow**

Alternatively you could abuse Unicode 😜

nhahtdh · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-22 08:09:30Z

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Or you can use zero-width space.

StackOverflow

Zero-width space doesn't work in comment, though.

answered Jul 22 '12 at 8:09

nhahtdh

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What's Zero-width space? – Yishu Fang Jul 22 '12 at 8:13
Just a Unicode character - it is space, but you won't see the space. You can hit edit on my post and try using arrow to navigate around the text: At the character k, you will need to press arrow 2 times to get to * of the bold formatting. This is 90% joke/troll and 10% answer. – nhahtdh Jul 22 '12 at 8:15
I tested before - doesn't work in comment: Stack**Overflow**. You can confirm by copy, paste this comment into a text editor and navigate around. – nhahtdh Jul 22 '12 at 8:18
Copy the above text to rishida.net/tools/conversion and convert you'll see a 0x200B between the 2 words. That's Unicode Character 'ZERO WIDTH SPACE' (U+200B) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zero-width_space – phuclv Oct 17 '14 at 6:05
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It may not work in SO, but it does work on GitHub. – Cory Klein Mar 15 '19 at 20:46

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whtsky · Accepted Answer · 2012-07-22 08:39:49Z

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Well,you need to do like this: Stack **Overflow**

OUTPUT:

Stack Overflow

answered Jul 22 '12 at 8:39

whtsky

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I think the OP does not want any space between Stack and Overflow. – Franck Dernoncourt Jan 6 '16 at 20:05

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