You can view the Pull Request on github:
https://github.com/php/php-langspec/pull/43
Warning: according to github, the Pull Request cannot be merged without manual conflict resolution!
Pull Request Description:
Markdown will not italicise a chunk of text enclosed in asterisks if an alphanumeric character immediately follows the closing asterisk. The easiest way to get around this is to use the more verbose HTML tags.
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