diff --git a/tildes/tildes/lib/markdown.py b/tildes/tildes/lib/markdown.py
index 2c97d00..8c5a48c 100644
--- a/tildes/tildes/lib/markdown.py
+++ b/tildes/tildes/lib/markdown.py
@@ -198,6 +198,17 @@ def escape_accidental_ordered_lists(markdown: str) -> str:
 
 def postprocess_markdown_html(html: str) -> str:
     """Apply post-processing to HTML generated by markdown parser."""
+    # cmark (and cmark-gfm) replaces double-quote characters with the " entity.
+    # This is almost always unnecessary, and is causing issues with some of the HTML
+    # processing, since (for example) BeautifulSoup will convert them back, which causes
+    # the string-replacement in apply_syntax_highlighting() to fail if a code block
+    # contains any double-quote characters.
+    #
+    # We'll just do a full replacement here - this has a possibility of being dangerous,
+    # but it should be extremely unlikely and the sanitization function should make sure
+    # that nothing malicious can happen regardless.
+    html = html.replace(""", '"')
+
     # apply syntax highlighting to code blocks
     html = apply_syntax_highlighting(html)