# Bold failure in Chinese sentence, because of the usage of Chinese punctuation is different from English

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**Created:** [May 26, 2020, 10:56am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/bold-failure-in-chinese-sentence-because-of-the-usage-of-chinese-punctuation-is-different-from-english/3478 "2020-05-26T10:56:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![haqer1](https://cdn.commonmark.org/user_avatar/talk.commonmark.org/haqer1/32/1861_2.png) [@haqer1](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/haqer1)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2020, 8:57am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/bold-failure-in-chinese-sentence-because-of-the-usage-of-chinese-punctuation-is-different-from-english/3478/2 "2020-05-29T08:57:45Z")

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The best solution at _present_ might be usage of _zero-width space_. I had suggested adding a sub-section about it in the spec:

> <https://github.com/commonmark/commonmark-spec/pull/644/files>
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> Includes a couple of basic use-cases
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> Fixes: #643

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