RTL support on MY

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The Stack Exchange network is gradually planning on moving to CommonMark. AFAICT CommonMark doesn't support any form of explicit RTL direction.

islam.SE is another site that will be similarly affected.
– Ray Butterworth
Jun 2 '20 at 0:32 — Ray Butterworth, Jun 2 '20 at 0:32

msh210 · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-03 22:20:18Z

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What is the current state of RTL on MY?

How will SE's plans affect MY?

answered Jun 3 '20 at 22:20

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Ray Butterworth · Accepted Answer · 2020-06-06 01:00:17Z

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In case there are problems, here's something that might help.

I recently had a problem with RTL and <q> tags, which I was eventually able to solve myself: html - How to use HTML q-tag with RTL Hebrew alphabet - Webmasters Stack Exchange.

The trick is to use the non-printing unicode ‏ character, which switches the parsing into RTL mode.

answered Jun 6 '20 at 1:00

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Note that ‏ is the same as &rlm;, which is documented in greater detail at the page linked to from my answer here.
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Jun 7 '20 at 18:07
@msh210, my fault for not actually reading your link (I carelessly interpreted "workarounds … various characters …" as meaning entities for the individual Hebrew characters). Feel free to delete my answer.
– Ray Butterworth
Jun 7 '20 at 20:49
@msh210, it's interesting that after more than a month Webmasters.SE couldn't answer my question, other than by saying it's not possible. I guess I should have asked here (or meta).
– Ray Butterworth
Jun 7 '20 at 20:50

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