OT: Gmail (was Re: Conlang Flag art links)

On May 26, 2008, at 8:21 PM, Sai Emrys wrote:

> On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Eric Christopherson
> <rakko@...>
> wrote:
>
>> Here're links to the original discussions:
>>> http://archives.conlang.info/pu/zhoelfau/bhuebordhoen.html
>>> http://archives.*conlang*.info/gha/dhoelthaen/fhelwhoelkhoen.html
>>>
>>
>> Presumably you need to take the asterisks out of the second one.
>>
>
> Yeah. Google search of archives.conlang.info bolded it, which
> stayed in
> gmail when pasted. Boo.
>
> - Sai
Ugh. I really hate how Google Chat treats ** and __ specially like
that. I didn't realize that extended to its email.

When you *view* an email with an asterisked word, does it show up as
bold (and not show the asterisks at all)?

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