syamjithnk/arshape

ArShape — when does the standard Arabic rendering recipe break Arabic? Author: Syamjith NK Write-up: The Arabic fix everyone recommends is now the thing breaking your Arabic Companion dataset: ArNum-TTS — the same failure mode in speech. The finding arabic_reshaper + python-bidi before drawing is the standard advice for rendering Arabic in Python. On any renderer that already performs complex-text layout it corrupts the output, because the shaping and the bidi… See the full description on the dataset page: https://huggingface.co/datasets/syamjithnk/arshape.