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GitHub-flavored Markdown does not use C-style escapes for escaping backticks inside spans. Instead, GFM uses double, significant whitespaced, backticks.

Two backticks, then a space, then a backtick, then a space, then two more backticks:

`` ` ``

produces:

dwiyatci commented Sep 14, 2023

@patbl @jonathanneo github/docs#24940

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dwiyatci commented Sep 14, 2023

Uh oh!