What token is the '`' character?

"Brett Ryan" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.user-interface
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi guys, I've come up with a nice theme based from the
ruby-lang.orgexamples page.

Since this is a dark background, when I type '`' it appears black though I
have no black in my syntax, what token is this recognised as?

-Brett
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