Escaped Characters and Backtick

Using wp-markdown on comments, it escapes greater-than and less-than characters inside a code block. The preview shows them properly, but after the comment is submitted, they are escaped

> becomes >

Also when I use backticks for inline code, it blocks the code (puts it on it’s own line).

You can see an example here https://dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2016/08/31/kwikopen-update/#comment-971097

The main block code has a greater than sign that’s escaped. And the small code line at the bottom was done with backticks and is not shown in-line.

Thanks for any help you can provide