In `users/{id}/timeline`, the `detail` field for comment events is formatted with Markdown and not HTML. Is it normal?

I saw in the question [Comments are returning markdown][1] that the API should return HTML comments and I wonder if it's always the case.

Here's a sample request: 
http://api.stackoverflow.com/1.1/users/22656/timeline

Output:

    {
      "total": 35457,
      "page": 1,
      "pagesize": 30,
      "user_timelines": [
        {
          "user_id": 22656,
          "timeline_type": "comment",
          "post_id": 5057438,
          "post_type": "answer",
          "comment_id": 5663582,
          "action": "comment",
          "creation_date": 1298217147,
          "description": "[java] insertion sort - syntax question",
          "detail": "@aioobe: I've undone the downvote, but I think it's clearer to talk about what the *general* translation is... it's not like the compiler is *actually* going to put the decrement after the assignment."
        },
        ...
       ]
    }

The `detail` property contains text like `*general*` or `*actually*`.



  [1]: https://stackapps.com/questions/1772/comments-are-returning-markdown