As confirmed in this question
there is no rich text formatting in private messages. This idea is to have the same formatting options as in posts in private messages:
Rich Text Formatting in direct messages/private messages
I think that’s already an idea here:
Updated idea statusNew→Closed (Duplicate)
Idea merged into:All the votes from this idea have been transferred.
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