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by idianal 1459 days ago
A GitHub bug I recently noticed that seems related:

Expected: When a repo's readme is named `README` (without the `.md` suffix), it is rendered as plain text. When a repo's readme is named `README.md`, it is rendered as Markdown.

Actual: When a repo's readme is named `README` (without the `.md` suffix), the presence of `$` causes parts of the file to be rendered as math. For a real-life example, see the readme in https://github.com/idianal/personal-site.

Can someone please point me where I can submit a bug report/issue for this?

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There's a second bug related to this. If you click on any file in your repo, then click the browser's back button, instead of parts of your README rendered as math, you get a red box with 'Unable to render expression'. Neat.
They make it hard to find by pointing you to community support, but you can open a support (or bug) ticket here: https://support.github.com/request