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 t         


        

Answer 1

Here is a JavaScript implementation of Markdown, which (according to the commit comments) adds support for RTL languages, namely Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Thaana. And it seems trivially easy to add more languages.

https://github.com/hasenj/showdown/

It's based on Showdown, http://attacklab.net/showdown.

It seems to automatically understand whether or not to render the text from right to left.
Consider this code snippet: (from the very first commit at GitHub)

var p_tag = "
";
var rtl_p_tag = "
";

// Check for RTL paragraphs: paragraphs that start with a character
// from an RTL script.
// RTL scripts are: Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, Thaana
// Unicode ranges reference: http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/~tomw/java/unicode.html
var first_char = str.charCodeAt(str.search(/\S/)); //first non-white-space char
if(first_char >= 1424 && first_char <= 1983) 
{
    p_tag = rtl_p_tag;
}

    str = _RunSpanGamut(str);
    str = str.replace(/^([ \t]*)/g, p_tag);

Hope this helps,
Magnus