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 #### Body Compression
 
-**This feature is NOT JWT specification compliant*, but it can be very useful when you parse your own tokens.*
+**This feature is NOT JWT specification compliant**, *but it can be very useful when you parse your own tokens*.
 
 If your JWT body is large and you have size restrictions (for example, if embedding a JWT in a URL and the URL must be under a certain length for legacy browsers or mail user agents), you may now compress the JWT body using a `CompressionCodec`: