colons converted to asterisks in markdown dosctring

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Environment data

VS Code version: 1.19.3
Python Extension version: 2018.1.0
Python Version: Python 3.6.4
OS and version: Linux 4.14.15-1-ARCH

Actual behavior

def bug():
	"""Print `namespace::namespace::Class`."""

I tried to add docstring for some PrettyPrinters for gdb by adding full class name with namespaces (C++) within markdown's backticks but colons ':' get converted to double asterisks '**'.