Text formatting

With the recent update adding text formatting, one would think that I would be glad about it...but I'm not. Why? Well, allow me to explain. I am a roleplayer, and in roleplay, asterisks are used to signify a character's actions. Now, whenever I have my character do something, it's all in bold and looks awful. And yes, I am aware of the "two at symbols" thing, but that is just absolutely backwards and unnecessary. Is it really so hard to put an extra checkbox under options that says "disable text formatting" or something like that?

Claudius has posted a solution to the autoformatting problem. It's not discoverable, even by accident, and it shows that the option actually exists, but that Skype have decided not to show it to us users.
http://community.skype.com/t5/iOS-iPhone-and-iPad/Bolded-text/m-p/3802566#M31604
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|
v
Router
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making this
> change
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Hello!
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The small sample demonstrates the problem.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
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<![CDATA[
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Hope that helps,
Richard

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