How to escape German gender diversity "*" within words? (Without a special escape character!)

[issteve]

• Markwon version: 4.6.2

1. Please specify expected/actual behaviour

At the moment everything between "*" and "*" get marked as emphasis, no matter if it's within a word or outside.
It should work for something important ("*important*"), but in this use case not for a German "Forscher*in".

2. Please specify conditions/steps to reproduce (layout, code, markdown used, etc)

Liebe Leser*in,
wir schätzen das Gendersternchen gerade auch für Techniker*innen, weil ...

=> Nothing should be em.

In Germany it's by officials and related organizations considered a friendly way (see e.g. https://www.antidiskriminierungsstelle.de/SharedDocs/aktuelles/DE/2023/20230227_Genderstern.html ) to use "*" within a gendered word to include gender/sex diversity as intersex, non-binary and other queer folks not fitting the male/female-cis-category.

How can markwon configured in a way it uses the "*" only outside of other characters.
Like at the beginning or end of a word or line.
(But not within other characters like "Pfleger*in" or "9*6=42". ;-)

Thanks for your help.

P.S. As there is some political dispute around it, let me point out, it's just the question how to configure markwon for this use case, not for changing markwons behaviour in general.
P.P.S. It's not an option to force users(!) marking the normal and expected "*" within a word with an escape character, too.
P.P:P.S. See this discussion in German, too: https://chaos.social/@unir/111931100580781200