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To be fair, underlined text is generally frowned upon as a " workaround for shortcomings in typewriter technology" [1,2]. Moreover, the underline nowadays is very tightly coupled with hyperlinks. Personally, seeing some underlined text that's not a hyperlink would really surprise me.

[1]: https://practicaltypography.com/underlining.html

[2]: https://lawriwilliamson.wordpress.com/tag/bad-typography/

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> “Oh come on! Everyone underlines links!” Some who don’t: the New York Times, New York magazine, the Washington Post, Bloomberg, Google, Amazon, Apple, GitHub, and Wikipedia. Even eBay, paragon of ’90s website design, has relented. Are underlined links dead? Maybe not quite. Dying? For sure.

I don't know when this paragraph was written, but right now checking the first four on that list (New York Times, New York magazine, the Washington Post, Bloomberg) all publications underline links in the bodies of their articles.

Yes, that last paragraph did not age well. I think that by now, not using underline for hyperlinks is becoming just as bad as using it for emphasis.

IIRC, at least in France, we're taught to underline book names when referencing them in a document. I think my teachers used to make me do that in writing as well ^^

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