diff --git a/src/db_sqlite.nim b/src/db_sqlite.nim
index 8324079602..7bd807a124 100644
--- a/src/db_sqlite.nim
+++ b/src/db_sqlite.nim
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@
 ## Instead, a `seq[string]` is returned for each row.
 ##
 ## The reasoning is as follows:
-## 1. it's close to what many DBs offer natively (char**)
+## 1. it's close to what many DBs offer natively (`char**`:c:)
 ## 2. it hides the number of types that the DB supports
 ##    (int? int64? decimal up to 10 places? geo coords?)
 ## 3. it's convenient when all you do is to forward the data to somewhere else (echo, log, put the data into a new query)