Pasting text into Gutenberg with asterisks – Unwanted auto format

Try pasting this code into a page…

lorem*ipsum
lorem ipsum
lorem*ipsum

Gutenberg will format part of the text italic, like this:

loremipsum lorem ipsum loremipsum

But I do not want Gutenberg to auto format this text in any way.

I tried to use the combination CMD+Shift+V in order to insert unformatted text, but this does not prevent the auto format from Gutenberg.

The only workaround that I came across is to insert a classic editor, insert the text there unformatted and convert to Gutenberg blocks.

I really want to be able to directly insert directly into Gutenberg without the editor to convert part of the text into italic text.

Is there a way to achieve this?

Background info:

In Germany there is a gender neutral writing method that makes use of the asterisk. E.g.: “Mitarbeiter*innen”. So words in a text may contain asterisks, and users should still be able to copy paste texts into Gutenberg that contain such formatted words.