Lots of things use underscore for italics, if you asked me to guess I'd certainly try it first (and asterisk for bold).
... in fact I just tried it and underscore apparently works in WhatsApp, TIL.
OTOH /italics/ reads to me as a regular expression, which ... is apparently not what you meant.
(as ever, "intuitive" varies wildly between people, and the trick is to pick the option that's intuitive for the highest possible percentage of your expected user base)
... in fact I just tried it and underscore apparently works in WhatsApp, TIL.
OTOH /italics/ reads to me as a regular expression, which ... is apparently not what you meant.
(as ever, "intuitive" varies wildly between people, and the trick is to pick the option that's intuitive for the highest possible percentage of your expected user base)