Option to remove the plusses from the output?

[multimeric]

It seems the diff output uses both the green highlighting, and the "plus" formatting to indicate an addition. It would be lovely if we could keep the highlighting and remove the plusses on each character, or vice-versa. In my case, my downstream processing of the data (converting to HTML and LaTeX) seems to have difficulty with these characters. Similarly for the deletions.

I would be happy if we could --no-unicode-formatting or similar, indicating that we keep the ANSI colour codes.

[multimeric]

I've tried messing around with the code, but not even setting writer.enabled = False seems to fix it internally.

However a nice hack I've discovered is that you can pipe the output through unidecode (which also has a Python API) to remove the combining marks.