Escaping backticks in a code block block does not work

I swear I'm not trying to find bugs in the markdown parser XD but if you escape backticks while in a code block block then it does not work.

IE what I was trying to do is show someone how to format a code block and this is what happened

• How to reproduce
• did 3 backticks
• new line, 3 backticks escaped with / but backslash
• normal code
• 3 more escaped backticks
• 3 actual backticks to close the block

What that looks like when done can be seen below

---

\`\`\`ruby
require "zlib"

def compress_file(file_name)
  zipped = "#{file_name}.gz"

  Zlib::GzipWriter.open(zipped) do |gz|
    gz.write IO.binread(file_name)
  end
end
\`\`\`

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edit: so it seems that in a post this works in post, but also includes the backticks. the garbled mess that I first encountered was from a comment so I'll post it there too

Comments

[Meghan (she/her)]

\`\`\`ruby
require "zlib"

def compress_file(file_name)
  zipped = "#{file_name}.gz"

  Zlib::GzipWriter.open(zipped) do |gz|
    gz.write IO.binread(file_name)
  end
end
\`\`\`

okay, now its the same as above, idk what happened ¯\(ツ)/¯

[Muhammad Tayyab Sheikh]

I came here looking for the solution of same problem. Turns out I missed closing backticks at one place in my blog. 😁😁😁 (By the way, I have just published it, you may read it here: dev.to/cstayyab/minimal-user-manag...

[Eli Ostreicher]

For the next person running into this issues, wrap the fenced block in ~~~ instead of backticks.
This will allow for any backticks inside the block to show as actual backticks.

[allan-pg]

Thank you it really worked

[HasanTheSyrian]

I'm trying to do the same thing, but it's not working!

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