Unable to put the pipe symbol in an inline code block into a table

[flysand7]

When I'm trying to display a table of operators in a programming language syntax documentation, I'm unable to put a pipe inside a code block into a table. The pipe seems to be interpreted as a table separator, even if it is included inside the backticks. The simple minimum example below demonstrates the problem:

Operator | Description
---------|---------------------
`!=`     | Not equals operator
`|`      | Pipe operator

The result is not what is expected:

I have been unable to find a workaround that allows me to have a pipe symbol in a code block inside a table. I have tried putting backslash inside the backticks: This displays | as expected, but it also displays \.

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Funnily enough, github seems to have the same bug:

Operator	Description
!=	Not equals operator
`	`

Except at least it works with a backslash

Operator	Description
!=	Not equals operator
|	Pipe operator

[flysand7]

For now found a workaround. I'm switching to HTML tables. They're easier to edit anyway and support way more than plain markdown tables.