Plus-minus (±) Quick Accent

[themenace9000]

Description of the new feature / enhancement

Can you please add support for the plus-minus symbol (±) in the Quick Accent feature?

When holding down '=', it would be great to see ± and possibly some more relevant symbols such as approximately equal to (≈).

It would act similar to holding down '-' for different dashes (e.g., en and em dash).

Scenario when this would be used?

When writing scientific results, I often use ±.

E.g., "mean ± SEM".

Supporting information

No response

[viggyd]

This feature already exists. If you hold down ,, you should see it there. Note that I'm running v0.74.0, so it's possibly a recent addition.

[TheJoeFin]

Agreed this is under the , but maybe it should be under the = or + as well.

[shaheerkkkk]

Agreed.
While the , key contains ±, the - and = keys both contains ∓ ∓. I think this can be streamlined, be removed from the comma key (which already houses a few other duplicates) and be brought into the - or = keys.

I'm no developer, but I wouldn't mind helping out in streamlining the special characters. For the most part, they work very well (the Pound sign can be found in P, which I can imagine, but it would make sense if it was available in E, because £ looks like...) and it's nice when they're there, but sometimes having to hunt around for the relevant symbol can be troublesome (I had to google where the ± was located after I copy/pasted it from another webpage).

[ltomuta]

Come on folks, make this happen. Put ± on + where it belongs, and let ∓ stay on -

[cinnamon-msft]

/dup #26270

[microsoft-github-policy-service]

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