Markdown: Multiline Blockquote broken in `markdown.md`

Summary

The multiline blockquote example is broken on gitlab.com as well as docs.gitlab.com (see here). It works in this Issue tracker though.

Steps to reproduce

Go to

• https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/blob/master/doc/user/markdown.md#multiline-blockquote

or

• https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/markdown.html#multiline-blockquote

What is the current bug behavior?

>>>
If you paste a message from somewhere else

that

spans

multiple lines,

you can quote that without having to manually prepend `>` to every line!
>>>

compiles to

⁠

If you paste a message from somewhere else

that

spans

multiple lines,

you can quote that without having to manually prepend > to every line!

⁠

What is the expected correct behavior?

It should compile to

If you paste a message from somewhere else

that

spans

multiple lines,

you can quote that without having to manually prepend > to every line!

Relevant screenshot