The only time I’ve ever seen it is in cases like Google±formatting , where it’s a mistake. How can it be turned off?

For science or math content, it makes sense. I can edit my post… :slight_smile:

You would have to disable all of enable markdown typographer I agree it is somewhat odd, but not sure if we should ship our own defaults for typographer, this is the first I ever heard of this +- problem, I think notation wise this can be handy for stuff such as: Removing this feature will take 1 w…

I’m on the fence on this one. For example here in the UK many keyboards including my own has the ±, so we don’t need the conversion. It should probably come down to whichever is the more common notation. The instance in the Google+ Exporter topic was probably the first time I’ve seen it arise here,…

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mcdanlj (Michael K Johnson) February 26, 2019, 6:02pm 2

For science or math content, it makes sense. I can edit my post…

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