Marking up an asterisk with <kbd>

Question

I've experienced a problem with <kbd> tag and the asterisk * on Stack Overflow.

How to reproduce:

1. <kbd>*</kbd> bug <kbd>*</kbd>

   which provides: bug

2. <kbd>**</kbd> bug <kbd>*</kbd>
   which provides: ** bug *

3. <kbd>**</kbd> bug <kbd>**</kbd>
   which provides bug

Example without the issue:

/ bug *

Answer 1

You need to escape the asterisks since they are involved in formatting in markdown.

<kbd>\*</kbd>

*

<kbd>\*\*</kbd>

**

Same applies to _ if you want to show the _ key.