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Hello

In plain text emails, what is the mechanism in gnus that makes _italic_
be displayed in italic and *bold* in bold?
Is it a standard behavior shared by other mail clients or a gnus
specific one?
Is there a list of all the codes that can be used?

Cheers
Thomas