How to translate .markdown with russian characters to pdf?

Question

Markdown

$ cat ./markdown_example.md
#Заголовок
Списрок:
* Элемент 1
* Элемент 2
* Элемент 3
$ pandoc --latex-engine=xelatex -V mainfont="Liberation Serif" ./markdown_example.md -o markdown_example.pdf
pandoc: Error producing PDF from TeX source.
! Text line contains an invalid character.
l.48 \section{^^W

Answer 1

Judging by the manual, you do not need a latex-engine, but a pdf-engine, which is what the pandok actually swears at (says that he was waiting for latex at the entrance):

pandoc MANUAL.txt --pdf-engine=xelatex -o example13.pdf

https://pandoc.org/demos.html