Telegram markdown syntax: Bold *and* italic? (September 2018)

Question

By looking at Telegram’s “Markdown Syntax” Wiki page, it should be relatively easy to create text that is bold and italic.

There, it says that

*this is in italic* and _so is this_  **this is in bold** and __so is this__  ***this is bold and italic*** and ___so is this___ 

results in

this is in italic and so is this

this is in bold and so is this

this is bold and italic and so is this

.

But using

***this is bold and italic*** 

results in

*this is bold an italic*

and

___this is bold and italic___ 

results in

_this is bold an italic_

.

That is: Telegram’s markdown interpretation must have changed.

When programming a Telegram bot, it is possible to use HTML instead of markdown, but I would like to simply write some bold and italic text to my friends while regularly chatting with them.

Using the markdown syntax that is used here does not work. I already tried it.

Answer 1

That Wiki page is outdated. Telegram accepts standard Markdown text formatting:

• Bold: Double * = **hello world**
• Italic: Double _ = __hello world__
• Monospace: Triple ` = ```hello world```