diff --git a/extensions/markdown-basics/package.json b/extensions/markdown-basics/package.json
index e40265339c3..f3b99f6606f 100644
--- a/extensions/markdown-basics/package.json
+++ b/extensions/markdown-basics/package.json
@@ -87,7 +87,12 @@
         "language": "markdown",
         "path": "./snippets/markdown.code-snippets"
       }
-    ]
+    ],
+    "configurationDefaults": {
+      "[markdown]": {
+          "editor.unicodeHighlight.ambiguousCharacters": false
+      }
+    }
   },
   "scripts": {
     "update-grammar": "node ../node_modules/vscode-grammar-updater/bin microsoft/vscode-markdown-tm-grammar syntaxes/markdown.tmLanguage ./syntaxes/markdown.tmLanguage.json"