Hi,

I have started the work of translating the tour.dlang.org website to Urdu. Languages such as Arabic/Urdu/Farsi/Hebrew are written from Right-To-Left (RTL). The problem that I am facing is that the content to translate is written in markdown which is being rendered into html on the website.

Now in order to translate the content to Urdu, I am having to add an extra "<p dir="rtl"></p>" tag for every new paragraph which is an inefficient way to do things.

Is there a way that I can add a script that makes the website detect if a given language is RTL and automatically render the page to RTL?

Also, is there any shortcut in markdown for this that I am missing? I did my research and couldn't find any efficient solution. Any guidance would be much appreciated.

On Sunday, 9 February 2020 at 07:02:13 UTC, Mir H. S. Quadri wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have started the work of translating the tour.dlang.org website to Urdu. Languages such as Arabic/Urdu/Farsi/Hebrew are written from Right-To-Left (RTL). The problem that I am facing is that the content to translate is written in markdown which is being rendered into html on the website.
>
> Now in order to translate the content to Urdu, I am having to add an extra "<p dir="rtl"></p>" tag for every new paragraph which is an inefficient way to do things.
>
> Is there a way that I can add a script that makes the website detect if a given language is RTL and automatically render the page to RTL?
>
> Also, is there any shortcut in markdown for this that I am missing? I did my research and couldn't find any efficient solution. Any guidance would be much appreciated.
Hi,

Not sure if markdown has such support in spec itself. However you may try add unicode rtl mark to rtl text according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_mark . Browsers should properly interpret this mark and show text in rtl format (needs confirmation).

Best regards,
Alexandru.

On Sunday, 9 February 2020 at 09:49:16 UTC, Alexandru Ermicioi wrote:
> On Sunday, 9 February 2020 at 07:02:13 UTC, Mir H. S. Quadri wrote:
>> [...]
> Hi,
>
> Not sure if markdown has such support in spec itself. However you may try add unicode rtl mark to rtl text according to https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-to-left_mark . Browsers should properly interpret this mark and show text in rtl format (needs confirmation).
>
> Best regards,
> Alexandru.

Hi,

Thanks for the link. I will look into it. So far as my research goes, there is no built in solution in md for this.