RTL in Markdown

Question

Is there any existing addon spec for markdown that includes support for RTL languages?

What I'm hoping for is something like

This paragraph is left to right <- This paragraph is right to left 

Or something... I can tweak my parser to handle this but I want to make sure it doesn't exist already.

Answer 1

Actually as my friend Aevyz reminded me, Markdown parses HTML in it.

You won't need to change your parser. The quickest path to solve that I could think of is this:

<div dir="rtl">  سلام دنیا  مرحبا العالم  שלום בעולם  ہیلو دنیا </div> 

So you need to add literally two lines to turn a whole document or an arbitrary section of it into RTL. It will be more compatible than an own script.

Answer 2

Not exactly markdown, but this is how you can override paragraph direction in StackExchange questions and answers (this method does not work for comments):

add &#x202b; (RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING) in the beginning of a paragraph does control the direction of this paragraph (auto-reset on <br/> or empty line):

&#x202b;test מה זה? YES<br/> test1 מה זה? NO test2 מה זה? NO  &#x202b;test1 מה זה? YES test2 מה זה? YES 

‫test מה זה? YES
test1 מה זה? NO test2 מה זה? NO

‫test1 מה זה? YES test2 מה זה? YES