I was operating under the impression that a single asterisk would muck up the Markdown parsing on HN. Turns out I'm half wrong it seems. Some work. With the ita

I was operating under the impression that a single asterisk would muck up the Markdown parsing on HN. Turns out I'm half wrong it seems. Some work. With the italicised tests below, the first has a prepended asterisk, the second has an appended one. * Test Test* Test Test Test * I think I just started using daggers because U+2020 was super easy to remember and to avoid Markdown issues and the habit has stuck. You don't by any chance use Vim, do you? I use the Unicode plugin[0] by Christian Brabandt in Vim to quickly search for Unicode characters. You can use vim-plug[1][2] by Junegunn Choi, for instance, to install it and keep it updated or just install it manually yourself. call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged') Plug 'https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim' call plug#end() Then within vim type :UnicodeSearch dagger to search for daggers. This gives me: † U+2020 Dec:008224 DAGGER (/-) † ‡ U+2021 Dec:008225 DOUBLE DAGGER (/=) ‡ ‡ ⸶ U+2E36 Dec:011830 DAGGER WITH LEFT GUARD ⸶ ⸷ U+2E37 Dec:011831 DAGGER WITH RIGHT GUARD ⸷ ⸸ U+2E38 Dec:011832 TURNED DAGGER ⸸ U+1F5E1 Dec:128481 DAGGER KNIFE 🗡 [0] https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim https://github.com/chrisbra/unicode.vim [1] https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug [2] https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/tips#automatic-installation https://github.com/junegunn/vim-plug/wiki/tips#automatic-ins...