This is a csl locale issue, US is default. You can try --metadata 
lang=en-GB as suggested here <https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/7005> or 
add a zero-width-space as mentioned here 
<https://groups.google.com/g/pandoc-discuss/c/NiFPVF9TeCg/m/9pHluL3iAgAJ>.


On Friday, 25 June 2021 at 14:38:07 UTC+3 William Lupton wrote:

> Hello,
>
> It seems that adding --citeproc causes a question mark to be brought 
> within quotes, which I didn't expect. I tried escaping it but this didn't 
> make any difference. Putting a space before it avoids the behaviour... but 
> I don't want a space!
>
> Thanks,
> William
>
> % pandoc -v
> pandoc 2.14.0.3
>
> % cat question.md 
> '-'?
>
> % pandoc question.md 
> <p>‘-’?</p>
>
> % pandoc --citeproc question.md 
> <p>‘-?’</p>
>

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