Flowey on Nostr: Is there a way for regular users to utilize some of the common Markdown functions ...

Is there a way for regular users to utilize some of the common Markdown functions found on social media, such as bold, italics, strikethrough, etc., but without using Markdown? For example, if these special characters (bold, italic, striking) were treated as Unicode characters, the client wouldn't need to detect anything and no changes to Kind would be necessary.