diff --git a/modules/charset/escape_stream.go b/modules/charset/escape_stream.go
index 360e77782fb..df31c3b16cf 100644
--- a/modules/charset/escape_stream.go
+++ b/modules/charset/escape_stream.go
@@ -8,11 +8,13 @@ import (
 	"fmt"
 	"html"
 	"io"
+	"strings"
 	"unicode"
 	"unicode/utf8"
 
 	"gitea.dev/modules/setting"
 	"gitea.dev/modules/translation"
+	"gitea.dev/modules/util"
 )
 
 type htmlChunkReader struct {
@@ -30,6 +32,10 @@ type escapeStreamer struct {
 	ambiguousTables []*AmbiguousTable
 	allowed         map[rune]bool
 
+	tagPartial []byte // partial tag content, used to detect if we are in some tags
+
+	inTagMath bool // MathML operators like U+2212 are intended and wrapping them breaks the math layout
+
 	out io.Writer
 }
 
@@ -62,6 +68,7 @@ func escapeStream(locale translation.Locale, in io.Reader, out io.Writer, opts .
 		for i, part := range parts {
 			if partInTag[i] {
 				lastIsTag = true
+				es.trackHtmlTag(part)
 				if _, err := out.Write(part); err != nil {
 					return nil, err
 				}
@@ -75,7 +82,11 @@ func escapeStream(locale translation.Locale, in io.Reader, out io.Writer, opts .
 						return nil, err
 					}
 				}
-				if err = es.detectAndWriteRunes(part); err != nil {
+				if es.inTagMath {
+					if _, err := out.Write(part); err != nil {
+						return nil, err
+					}
+				} else if err = es.detectAndWriteRunes(part); err != nil {
 					return nil, err
 				}
 			}
@@ -83,6 +94,34 @@ func escapeStream(locale translation.Locale, in io.Reader, out io.Writer, opts .
 	}
 }
 
+// trackHtmlTag receives tag parts, a tag might be split into multiple parts
+func (e *escapeStreamer) trackHtmlTag(part []byte) {
+	const maxHeadLen = 100 // only read the first N bytes of the tag for detection purpose
+	if part[0] == '<' {
+		// start a new tag
+		e.tagPartial = e.tagPartial[:0]
+	}
+	if len(e.tagPartial) >= maxHeadLen {
+		return
+	}
+	e.tagPartial = append(e.tagPartial, part[:min(len(part), maxHeadLen-len(e.tagPartial))]...)
+
+	isTag := func(prefix string) bool {
+		if len(e.tagPartial) < len(prefix)+1 {
+			return false
+		}
+		if !util.AsciiEqualFold(e.tagPartial[:len(prefix)], []byte(prefix)) {
+			return false
+		}
+		return strings.IndexByte(" \t\n\r\f>", e.tagPartial[len(prefix)]) != -1
+	}
+	if isTag("<math") {
+		e.inTagMath = true
+	} else if isTag("</math") {
+		e.inTagMath = false
+	}
+}
+
 func (e *escapeStreamer) trimAndWriteBom(part []byte) ([]byte, error) {
 	remaining, ok := bytes.CutPrefix(part, globalVars().utf8Bom)
 	if ok {
diff --git a/modules/charset/escape_test.go b/modules/charset/escape_test.go
index 905001fddb1..9961d55bc65 100644
--- a/modules/charset/escape_test.go
+++ b/modules/charset/escape_test.go
@@ -141,6 +141,12 @@ then resh (ר), and finally heh (ה) (which should appear leftmost).`,
 		result: `O<span class="ambiguous-code-point" data-tooltip-content="repo.ambiguous_character:𝐾 [U+1D43E],K [U+004B]"><span class="char">𝐾</span></span>`,
 		status: EscapeStatus{Escaped: true, HasAmbiguous: true},
 	},
+	{
+		name:   "ambiguous in math",
+		text:   "<math><mo>−</mo><mi>b</mi></math> −",
+		result: `<math><mo>−</mo><mi>b</mi></math> <span class="ambiguous-code-point" data-tooltip-content="repo.ambiguous_character:− [U+2212],- [U+002D]"><span class="char">−</span></span>`,
+		status: EscapeStatus{Escaped: true, HasAmbiguous: true},
+	},
 }
 
 func TestEscapeControlReader(t *testing.T) {
@@ -156,6 +162,24 @@ func TestEscapeControlReader(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 }
 
+func TestTrackHtmlTag(t *testing.T) {
+	e := &escapeStreamer{}
+	for _, tt := range []struct {
+		parts  []string
+		inMath bool
+	}{
+		{[]string{"<ma", `TH display="block">`}, true},
+		{[]string{"<mo>"}, true},
+		{[]string{"</MA", "th>"}, false},
+		{[]string{"<mathx>"}, false},
+	} {
+		for _, part := range tt.parts {
+			e.trackHtmlTag([]byte(part))
+		}
+		assert.Equal(t, tt.inMath, e.inTagMath, "%v", tt.parts)
+	}
+}
+
 func TestSettingAmbiguousUnicodeDetection(t *testing.T) {
 	defer test.MockVariableValue(&setting.UI.AmbiguousUnicodeDetection, true)()
 	_, out := EscapeControlHTML("a test", &translation.MockLocale{})
diff --git a/modules/util/string.go b/modules/util/string.go
index 0d1532b7d61..e077f4eff2d 100644
--- a/modules/util/string.go
+++ b/modules/util/string.go
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ func asciiLower(b byte) byte {
 
 // AsciiEqualFold is from Golang https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.24.4:src/net/http/internal/ascii/print.go
 // ASCII only. In most cases for protocols, we should only use this but not [strings.EqualFold]
-func AsciiEqualFold(s, t string) bool {
+func AsciiEqualFold[T string | []byte](s, t T) bool {
 	if len(s) != len(t) {
 		return false
 	}