Italic, bold, and other formatting for URLs/email addresses cannot be rendered correctly

Bug reports
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Steps to reproduce

  1. Open the sandbox vault
  2. Enter **Contact the person: [email protected]**
  3. Observe the asterisks show up after the email address:

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Did you read and follow the Troubleshooting Guide ? [Yes/No]

Yes

Expected result

No asterisks show up after the email address, as with an email address as a link:

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Actual result

Autodetected email addresses have trailing asterisks inside:
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Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
	Obsidian version: 1.13.7
	Installer version: 1.13.7
	Operating system: #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Debian 6.12.107-1 (2026-08-29) 6.12.107+deb13-amd64
	Login status: not logged in
	Language: en
	Insider build toggle: off
	Live preview: on
	Base theme: adapt to system
	Community theme: none
	Snippets enabled: 0
	Restricted mode: on

RECOMMENDATIONS:
	none

Distro Name: Debian
Distro Version: 13.6
Desktop Environment: GNOME
Installation method used: Flatpak

Additional information

This happens regardless of whether text is pasted, typed manually, or bolded via hotkeys. mailto: links in Markdown are not affected:

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