Single Quotes Converted to Curly Quotes in Inline Code

[jambonrose]

When converting Markdown to PDF via LaTeX, any single quote character in inline code is converted to a curly closing quote character.

Given a file text.md with the following:

Paragraph describing `method_name('/path/to/file1.txt', regexp=r"^[\w\/\-]+$")`.

The calls:

pandoc -f markdown_strict -o inlinequotes.tex --standalone text.md
pdflatex inlinequotes.tex

Result in:

Paragraph describing method_name(’/path/to/file1.txt’, regexp=r"ˆ[\w\/\-]+$").

The single quotes around the first argument have been converted to closing curly quotes. The double quotes around the second argument are unchanged, as are quotes in code blocks (thanks to upquote).

Adding --smart doesn't affect this, nor does switching the reader from markdown_strict to markdown. Furthermore, using pandoc to go directly to PDF via pandoc -f markdown -o inlinequotes.pdf --standalone text.md yields the same results.

The partial LaTeX output is:

Paragraph describing
\texttt{method\_name('/path/to/file1.txt', regexp=r"\^{}{[}\textbackslash{}w\textbackslash{}/\textbackslash{}-{]}+\$")}.

Is there a way to replace ' with \textquotesingle when text is output within \texttt?