How do you write italics on Facebook?

You can write italics in Facebook. But currently not all features supports italic writing facility. For example, you can write italic in Facebook notes using HTML tags Some Text that means if you write anything between tags will be written as italic.

But bad news is Facebook chat and wall don't have facility to write text in italics.

However, you can fake typing in italics by using these characters instead of letters:

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These also work:

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