On Wed, 10 Apr 2019 10:09:31 +0200
Otared Kavian <ota...@gmail.com> wrote:

> The problem of such an usual default is also with newcomers who would not 
> know about this feature in ConTeXt: when one writes maths one would not guess 
> that typing an inequality like $n < -1$ would end up in $n \leftarrow 1$. And 
> writing such inequalities is very common… while \leftarrow is used seldom in 
> a mathematical text.
> So I think having the default collapsing=1 would be more logical, and more in 
> line with the spirit of TeX.
> 
> I hope Aditya will be convinced…

And since we have utf-8 input, such "features" are anachronistic and should not 
be on by default. ←

Alan
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