why are italics with ^ symbols not working?

[MrsShrekTheThird]

any one else?
look....
not working!
but sometimes they do

um
try

mine have been ok I think whether it's a whole sentence like this

or just one word..........

ummm, i'm looking.......

Baroque you are showing off

I know that where something has no leading and trailing spaces it may fail.

(This may fail) ...

Yes I've had italics trauma this week as well.

If you're having trouble with a specific use of italics not working, try posting it on this thread and we'll hopefully be able to fix it for you.

the real problems came when I was trying to do italics inside brackets - only one word, immediately after a (bracket). Which didn't work. I'm sure I've done it plenty of times before with no issues