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x/pkgsite: three backticks are turned into a quotation mark followed by a single backtick even in indented block

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#45,267 opened on Mar 28, 2021

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Description

When entering two backticks pkg.go.dev renders it as a quotation mark, like LaTeX. However, this also happens when three backticks are used in an indented block where I would expect the original text to remain unchanged, for example, in this pre-formatted block demonstrating a markdown like language:

A pre block showing the behavior described in the issue

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Research direction
Inspect the pkgsite rendering pipeline, specifically the markdown parser or HTML template for code blocks, to identify where triple backticks inside indented blocks are incorrectly transformed.
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go
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frontend
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Go
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70