This issue will go away over time, as more people upgrade their tech. The characters don't appear correctly on old Android devices (they appear as rectangles instead).The characters won't be indexed in plain text for search purposes, so you shouldn't put keywords or other important terms in faux bold or italic. ![]() This means that they're not good for accessibility. The characters cannot be read by screen readers. ![]() I urge caution when using faux bold and italics, for a few reasons: The result looks something like this in LinkedIn: The problem with formatting text like this You then click Copy next to the relevant option and paste that into your LinkedIn profile or post. (Other pages on the site let you do different kinds of formatting.) You write the text you want and the site generates bold and italic versions. Here's an example of what this looks like. The workaround is to use a Unicode text generator such as YayText to make your text look as though it's formatted as rich text. LinkedIn presents profile and post content in plain text, which means you can't add normal rich-text formatting such as bold, italics and underlines.
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