Reference to heading with literal is not rendered as literal

[jessetan]

Describe the bug
Using a :ref: to a label of a heading that contains a literal is not rendered as a literal (monospaced font)

To Reproduce
Steps to reproduce the behavior:

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Bla
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.. _mylabel:

This header has a ``literal``
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This is a reference to the header above :ref:`mylabel`

Produces the following HTML and PDF:

Expected behavior
The word "literal" in the reference to be in a monospaced font (as well as in italics in PDF)

Environment info

• Sphinx version: 1.8.5

[tk0miya]

At present, this is intended behavior. So I replaced the tag by "enhancement". +0 to me.