# Turn off the +- fancypants formatting
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-the-fancypants-formatting/110139
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [26 februari 2019 om 17:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-the-fancypants-formatting/110139 "2019-02-26T17:57:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@notriddle](https://meta.discourse.org/u/notriddle)
#### Post date: [26 februari 2019 om 17:57 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-the-fancypants-formatting/110139/1 "2019-02-26T17:57:34Z")
The only time I’ve ever seen it is in cases like [Google±formatting](https://meta.discourse.org/t/bounty-google-private-communities-export-screenscraper-importer/108029/25), where it’s a mistake. How can it be turned off?
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### Author:  [@mcdanlj](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcdanlj)
#### Post date: [26 februari 2019 om 18:02 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-the-fancypants-formatting/110139/2 "2019-02-26T18:02:45Z")
For science or math content, it makes sense. I can edit my post… 🙂
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [27 februari 2019 om 05:22 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-the-fancypants-formatting/110139/3 "2019-02-27T05:22:00Z")
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 week ±90%
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### Author:  [@Stephen](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Stephen)
#### Post date: [27 februari 2019 om 05:36 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-the-fancypants-formatting/110139/4 "2019-02-27T05:36:56Z")
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, it’s going to be even less common after April.
It probably makes more sense to keep the conversion and educate users on the alternative for the rare edge cases where `+-` is intentional.
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### Author:  [@system](https://meta.discourse.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [1 april 2022 om 01:38 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/turn-off-the-fancypants-formatting/110139/5 "2022-04-01T01:38:30Z")