> --[[Joey]]
-> > It is not a standard feature (as much as Markdown is [standardized](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html)...) But it does allow for [syntax hilightning](https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown) too, just tag the language name after the backticks. It *seems* that Discount supports github-style backtick format (as well as Pandoc `~~~~` format) but doesn't allow the keyword argument.
+> > It is not a standard feature (as much as Markdown is [[standardized|Track_Markdown_Standardisation_Efforts]]...) But it does allow for [syntax hilightning](https://help.github.com/articles/github-flavored-markdown) too, just tag the language name after the backticks. It *seems* that Discount supports github-style backtick format (as well as Pandoc `~~~~` format) but doesn't allow the keyword argument.
> >
> > I strongly support this feature. --[[anarcat]]
> >
> > ```
> >
> > ... maybe a bug in Discount... --[[anarcat]]
+
+> > > Discount versions older than 2.1.6 do not support the \`\`\` fences.
+> > > ikiwiki.info (hosted by branchable.com) presumably runs on Debian
+> > > stable, which only has 2.1.3. I am not involved in running Branchable,
+> > > but it seems reasonable to assume that it will be upgraded to 2.1.7
+> > > as part of upgrading to Debian 8 when that is released. --[[smcv]]
+
+> > I strongly support this feature as well! --[[integrii]]
+
+> > > ikiwiki has no support for specific Markdown features: all it does
+> > > is to recognise a Markdown file and give it to a Markdown
+> > > implementation such as [[!cpan Text::Markdown::Discount]].
+> > > If you would like ikiwiki to support a different subset of Markdown,
+> > > please either recommend a better Markdown implementation, or
+> > > report bugs / feature requests to the maintainer of Discount.
+> > >
+> > > In this case it appears there is no code change required in
+> > > ikiwiki (and for that matter, nothing to do in Discount either
+> > > because the feature request has already been implemented),
+> > > so I'm [[closing this todo item|done]]. --[[smcv]]