As seen in the screenshot below, “hanging punctuation” has been activated on this text box, but the asterisk is not receiving this property. From what I can tell the only punctuation that works with this is a quotation mark. While that is a major use-case, another significant use is for Footnotes, which use a dozen or so different characters.
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