diff --git a/blocks/api/raw-handling/index.js b/blocks/api/raw-handling/index.js
index da07a567f6abd..b4b10a14cd736 100644
--- a/blocks/api/raw-handling/index.js
+++ b/blocks/api/raw-handling/index.js
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ export default function rawHandler( { HTML, plainText = '', mode = 'AUTO', tagNa
 
 		converter.setOption( 'noHeaderId', true );
 		converter.setOption( 'tables', true );
+		converter.setOption( 'literalMidWordUnderscores', true );
 		converter.setOption( 'omitExtraWLInCodeBlocks', true );
 		converter.setOption( 'simpleLineBreaks', true );