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They are not called minor and major signs, they are called "less than" and "greater than" signs. They are also the same characters used to enclose HTML tags, such as the script tag. Our code tries to be very conservative with the display of those tags in order to avoid XSS attacks. On the downside they look like crap. I can't fix that without potentially degrading the security of the component. If you have a better idea, by all means, please tell me. I don't pretend to be infallible and I do value the opinion of other developers as you already know from the FOF list and GitHub repo :)

I have tried solving this problem in the latest dev release. Would you mind testing it?

Awesome! There are no configuration changes necessary. I think this all started as a misinterpretation of the HTML standard.

The code tag is rendered as a pre HTML tag. Every piece of literature I got my hands on was telling me that if you want to add HTML tags inside a pre tag you have to escape, at the very least, the greater-than, less-than and ampersand characters. This is what I was doing. I observed that you were right, these entities were output verbatim: there was no entities or tag processing inside the pre tag. I ran more tests and I saw that even raw HTML inside the pre tags is output verbatim. Therefore the literature I was reading was outdated and I needn't escape the contents of the pre tag. As a result my fix was commenting out the line which would escape the pre tag's contents.