Pandoc, XeLaTex, and Hebrew Characters

[Kolen Cheung <christian.kolen-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>]

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Another problem you may hit is that Hebrew is Right to Left, and it is kind of non-trivial to get it right. The tricky thing is to tell (Xe)LaTeX that a certain text is Right to Left instead.

If your whole document are in Hebrew, you can probably configure your whole document to be right to left. If not, you need to enclose each use of Hebrew by a command that specifies its language.

I tried using ucharclasses in LaTeX for auto detect this Hebrew boundary, but the problem is the space between each Hebrew word will break the boundary, and hence each Hebrew word will be right to left but the whole sentense will be left to right.

To specify the language of a region, I think pandoc has a native way to do it (see the manual for the lang attribute) and I guess it will translate into the proper LaTeX command (you should test though).