They do work, it just requires that you put an extra newline in front of the list like this:

• this
• is
• a
• list

No, they do not work. And this seems to be a CSS issue.

I just tested with a comment on that update. To be clear, you have to put an extra newline before the list, like this:

Some paragraph text goes here

* this
* is
* a
* list

Oh, you want the bullets to show up?

Yes, well, would be nice. This why I assumed a CSS issue (last sentence of my initial description) ;-)

Noting here that we'll need to surround each markdown area with a <span class="markdown">...</span> tag so that we can zero-in the CSS rules with something like:

.markdown {
   list-style-type: cjk-ideographic;
}