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I agree with what you, but would like to add a different aspect:
In my opinion, the confusion (I'm not calling it a problem) here is that Zim is both, WYSIWYG and Wiki at the same time. If it weren't WYSIWYG, the user would immediately recognize the problem and avoid it by using a verbatim block. Letting the user enter something like //foo// and not showing him the result immediately is not WYSIWYG any more. I believe, in such a case Zim should turn the text into italics right away.
One more "user-friendly", less "black magic" alternative would be to pop up a dialogue asking the user if he wants to put that in italics or wrap it into a verbatim block. But this is of course a lot of "sugar" and might be too much for some...