title: Org mode weirdness with org-export-with-sub-superscripts
body: <p>I got sick of adding <code>#+OPTIONS: ^:{}</code> to the top of all of my <code>.org</code> files, so I thought I'd try to get that behavior once and for all by editing my <code>.emacs</code> file. Based on available documentation, it seems like</p>
  
  <pre><code>(setq org-export-with-sub-superscripts "{}")
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>would achieve the same behavior as <code>#+OPTIONS: ^:{}</code>, although when I do the <code>(setq ...</code> thing on its own, both <code>A_B</code> and <code>A_{B}</code> are rendered as <code>A&lt;sub&gt;B&lt;/sub&gt;</code> in the HTML output. To ensure <code>org-export-with-sub-superscripts</code> is the right variable, I tried</p>
  
  <pre><code>(setq org-export-with-sub-superscripts nil)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>which caused <code>A_B</code> to be rendered as <code>A_B</code> and <code>A_{B}</code> to be rendered as <code>A_{B}</code>—exactly what you'd expect. I've also tried <code>'"{}"</code>, and <code>(setq org-use-sub-superscripts "{}")</code> (with and without quoting <code>"{}"</code>), neither of which worked.</p>
  
  <p>I had this problem in Org mode 7.9.3, and it's followed me to 8.2.10. Any ideas what I'm doing incorrectly?</p>