I prefer ∠this⦢ way to mark text ∠italic⦢ and ⁎this* way to mark it as ⁎bold*. These are the symbols: — Italic: ∠ ANGLE Unicode: U+2220, UTF-8: E2 88 A0 ⦢

I prefer ∠this⦢ way to mark text ∠italic⦢ and ⁎this* way to mark it as ⁎bold*. These are the symbols: — Italic: ∠ ANGLE Unicode: U+2220, UTF-8: E2 88 A0 ⦢ TURNED ANGLE Unicode: U+29A2, UTF-8: E2 A6 A2 Bold: ⁎ LOW ASTERISK Unicode: U+204E, UTF-8: E2 81 8E * ASTERISK Unicode: U+002A, UTF-8: 2A — I just made this encoding up. Ah, it would be more correct to say I just made this markup up. I made it up and nobody understands it. …Or yeah, actually most people will understand it?