RST section title including ".*" and without blank line after adornment characters wrongly renders as inline markup

[fireattack]

Explain the problem.
This RST:

word.*word
------------
* abc

should be converted to an h2 heading with title "word.*word", and a bullet list of "abc".

However, it would be converted to (in MD, for example):

word.*word ------------* abc

which means it recognizes these two asterisks as inline markups.

You can "fix" it by adding a blank line after the ------------, but you shouldn't need to.

According to the spec, https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#sections

A blank line after a title is optional.

You can also "fix" it by removing . in front of * (i.e. change to word*word), but you shouldn't need to do this either; because this example does not match the rule for "inline markup recognition rule":
https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/ref/rst/restructuredtext.html#inline-markup-recognition-rules

6. Inline markup start-strings must start a text block or be immediately preceded by
   • whitespace,
   • one of the ASCII characters - : / ' " < ( [ {
   • or a similar non-ASCII punctuation character. [19]

As you can see, . (period) is NOT in the list of must-precede-the-markup list of characters (which are- : / ' " < ( [ { \s). Therefore, the first asterisk should NOT be recognized as markup, but literal asterisk.

Pandoc version?

3.2