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In the post below, Jeff Atwood claimed the MarkdownSharp has changed Markdown rules to disable intra-word emphasis like "the_file_name" or "file_one and file_two".
http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/responsible-open-source-code-parenting.html

As a result, the two components at both ends of the regular expressions, only match non-word character. That just what \W means:
https://code.google.com/p/markdownsharp/source/browse/MarkdownSharp/Markdown.cs#1357

Of course, Pagedown also do the same.

However, in East Asian Scripts, any emphasises are always "intra-word"! For example, this line with Markdown notations meant to emphasis two words, "北京" and "上海", that only are separated by the "和":

**北京**和**上海**是直辖市。

It's very common uses in Chinese. But now, if we want get the "intra-word emphasis" effect,

北京上海是直辖市。

we would have writing like this:

<strong>北京</strong>和<strong>上海</strong>是直辖市。

So, we have revised the searched regular expressions in MarkdownSharp and Pagedown to (C#):

([\W_]|\u4e00-\u9fff|^) (\*\*|__) (?=\S) ([^\r]*?\S[\*_]*) \2 (?=[\W_]|\u4e00-\u9fff|$)

and (JavaScript)

/([\W_]|\u4e00-\u9fff|^)(\*\*|__)(?=\S)([^\r]*?\S[\*_]*)\2(?=[\W_]|\u4e00-\u9fff|$)/g

the replaced patterns to (both server-side and client-side):

$1<em>$3</em>

截止2013年5月16日,下面的格式在图灵社区会原样不变:

*_北京_*和*_上海_*是直辖市。_*北京*_和_*上海*_是直辖市。

但应该显示为(与StackOverflow一致的):

_北京__上海_是直辖市。_北京_和_上海_是直辖市。


关于杨帆提出的两个问题的疑惑

2013年5月27日,杨帆提到以下文本中的“站点”在图灵社区曾经可以显示为粗体:

由Web站点构成

如上所示,Stack Overflow网页展示的“站点”不是粗体(客户端预览也不是)——这倒没关系——关键是,据温谦老师说:

(图灵社区)现在禁止(词内强调)时,使用的正则表达式(是):"([^A-Za-z0-9]||^) (*|) (?=\S) ([^\r*_]*?\S) \2 ([^A-Za-z0-9]|_|$)"
——出处:http://www.ituring.com.cn/article/38840#reply-19633

这个正则表达式要求匹配[^A-Za-z0-9],所以杨帆说的“站点”曾经可以显示为粗体的情况不可能出现!因为“Web”中的“b”不会与这个组件匹配,双星号也就不会被替换成<strong>标签。这是一个疑惑。

2013年4月23日,杨帆还提到以下文本中的Y、A、C、C在图灵社区预览不正确,但结果正确!

顺便说一下“yacc”这个名字的由来是Yet Another Compiler Compiler的缩写。

Stack Overflow禁用这种“词内强调”,图灵社区好像从一开始都在遵照这个“惯例”吧?如果是,怎么会出现“结果正确”这种违反惯例的情况呢?这是第二个疑惑。

2013-05-27 pm16:34 李松峰

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    ’Tisn’t really a bug if you’re not expecting Chinese text — like on Stack Overflow. Or is this just a bug report for the library?
    – Ry-
    Commented May 2, 2013 at 2:07
  • Yes, it isn't a bug. Commented May 3, 2013 at 2:05
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    instead of <strong></strong> you could just use <b></b> which saves 10 letters.
    – Doorknob
    Commented May 7, 2013 at 1:36
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    @rynah It is an issue on some of the other SE sites, like the Japanese and Chinese sites. (Unsure if it also applies to Russian or other non-latin alphabet language sites.)
    – Troyen
    Commented May 16, 2013 at 6:14
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Yes, we (finally) have considered this. For more info see Markdown change: Intra-word emphasis now works.

I've also updated the public repositories today: PageDown change, MarkdownSharp change.

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