Markdown in cucumber/gherkin descriptions and html formatter

Question

I am trying to use Markdown in Gherkin/Cucumber feature's descriptions. What I learned from https://cucumber.io/docs/gherkin/reference/

Descriptions can be in the form of Markdown - formatters including the official HTML formatter support this.

Unfortunately, for a feature like:

Feature: Feature name

    Are you sure that _Markdown_ works for Feature **Descriptions**?

    Scenario: Scenario name

I got an HTML report which does not take Markdown formatting into account. Is this a bug, or does it require some additional configuration?

Best, Tomasz