# Explicit RTL indication in pure Markdown

**URL:** <https://talk.commonmark.org/t/explicit-rtl-indication-in-pure-markdown/286>\
**Category:** Spec\
**Created:** [September 4, 2014, 12:12pm UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/explicit-rtl-indication-in-pure-markdown/286 "2014-09-04T12:12:41Z")\
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**Author:** ![ahangarha](https://cdn.commonmark.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v2/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@ahangarha](https://talk.commonmark.org/u/ahangarha)\
**Post date:** [November 15, 2019, 11:03am UTC](https://talk.commonmark.org/t/explicit-rtl-indication-in-pure-markdown/286/20 "2019-11-15T11:03:41Z")

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As per my experience and understanding, when we are dealing with mixed RTL and LTR txt, 99 percent of the cases, `dir="auto"` solves the problem. These 99 percents are to determine paragraph direction. The 1 remaining percent is related to rare cases. To make decision for this rare 1 percent, don’t stop!

Any extra action would be addition to the `dir="auto"` as per my understanding.

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