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arabic_lint-0.1.0/LICENSE

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+
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+SOFTWARE.

arabic_lint-0.1.0/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: arabic-lint
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Find Arabic text corrupted by reshape+bidi before it was stored. Zero dependencies.
+Author-email: Syamjith NK <hello@syamjithnk.com>
+License-Expression: MIT
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/Syamjith-NK/arabic-lint
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/Syamjith-NK/arabic-lint/issues
+Keywords: arabic,unicode,bidi,linter,i18n,rtl,text-shaping
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Natural Language :: Arabic
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance
+Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Linguistic
+Requires-Python: >=3.9
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# arabic-lint
+
+Finds Arabic text that was corrupted **before it was stored** — in your JSON, your
+localisation files, your database exports, your source code.
+
+```bash
+pip install arabic-lint
+arabic-lint ./src
+```
+
+```
+src/strings.json:3:20: 21 Arabic presentation forms stored  [UNSAFE TO AUTO-FIX]
+    found     : ﺓﺪﺤﺘﻤﻟﺍ ﺔﻴﺑﺮﻌﻟﺍ ﺕﺍﺭﺎﻣﻹﺍ
+    would be  : اإلمارات العربية المتحدة
+    contains a lam-alef ligature; NFKC decomposition reorders the pair, so this
+    recovery is wrong even though it looks like Arabic
+
+3 corrupted span(s) in 1 file(s); 1 cannot be auto-fixed safely.
+```
+
+Exit code 1 when anything is found, so it drops into CI unchanged.
+MIT. **Zero dependencies.** Python 3.9+.
+
+## What it actually detects
+
+The most widely copied recipe for "making Arabic work" in Python is:
+
+```python
+text = get_display(arabic_reshaper.reshape(text))
+```
+
+Those two calls do the job a text engine is supposed to do: substitute each letter
+for its contextual *presentation form*, and reorder the string into visual order.
+If your renderer already does complex text layout — Pillow with Raqm, matplotlib,
+any browser — the work happens twice and the output is wrong.
+
+The real damage is when that string gets **written back**: to a config, an export,
+a translation file. Now the corruption is at rest and every downstream reader
+inherits it. It renders as clean-looking Arabic, so nobody who does not read the
+script will ever notice.
+
+The signature is unambiguous: Arabic **Presentation Forms-B** codepoints
+(U+FE70–U+FEFF) in stored text. Those exist for legacy-encoding compatibility;
+correctly authored modern Arabic never contains them.
+
+## Why it reports instead of fixing
+
+You would think you could just undo it: `NFKC` maps every presentation form back
+to its base letter, and reversing undoes the visual reordering. That round-trips
+exactly — **until the span contains a lam-alef ligature**.
+
+A lam-alef ligature (`لا`, `لأ`, `لإ`, `لآ`) is *one* codepoint standing for *two*
+letters. NFKC expands it in logical order while the text around it is still in
+visual order, so the pair comes out reversed relative to its neighbours:
+
+| original | naive "fix" | |
+|---|---|---|
+| `الإمارات` | `اإلمارات` | not a word |
+| `السلام` | `السالم` | a **real but different** word |
+
+That second row is the whole reason this tool exists rather than a `sed` command.
+The output is still pronounceable Arabic, so it survives a proofread — and the
+definite article followed by alef is one of the most common sequences in the
+language, so this is not a corner case.
+
+`arabic-lint` shows you the candidate recovery and tells you when it is unsafe.
+It never rewrites your files.
+
+## Verification
+
+- **10/10 tests**, no runtime dependency on `arabic_reshaper` or `python-bidi`
+  (fixtures are recorded from a real run of both).
+- Block boundaries were **measured, not assumed**: over a wide Arabic sample,
+  `arabic_reshaper` 3.0.0 emits 53 distinct codepoints from Presentation Forms-B
+  and never emits U+FEFF.
+- **Validated against 3,826 real files** — the false positives that scan found are
+  now regression tests:
+  - **U+FEFF** sits inside Forms-B but is the byte order mark. Excluded.
+  - **Presentation Forms-A is deliberately not a signal.** The reshaper emits
+    exactly one codepoint from it (U+FDF2, the Allah ligature), and that character
+    — like `ﷺ` U+FDFA, `ﷻ` U+FDFB and `﷽` U+FDFD — is used *intentionally* in
+    ordinary Arabic writing. Treating the block as corruption flags correct
+    religious and formal text.
+
+## Known limits
+
+- A document whose only Arabic is a standalone Allah ligature is missed. That is
+  the deliberate trade above; any corrupted phrase around it still trips Forms-B.
+- The recovery direction assumes bidi was applied. Text that was reshaped but
+  *not* reordered recovers reversed. The tool shows you the candidate so you can
+  see which case you have; it does not guess.
+- It detects corruption that is *already stored*. It cannot tell you whether your
+  rendering pipeline is about to create some — for that, check
+  `PIL.features.check("raqm")` at runtime in the environment doing the rendering.
+
+## Related
+
+Part of a series measuring where Arabic silently breaks in software.
+See also [`arabic-tts-frontend`](https://pypi.org/project/arabic-tts-frontend/) —
+numerals, dates and currency converted to spoken Arabic before synthesis.

arabic_lint-0.1.0/README.md

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+# arabic-lint
+
+Finds Arabic text that was corrupted **before it was stored** — in your JSON, your
+localisation files, your database exports, your source code.
+
+```bash
+pip install arabic-lint
+arabic-lint ./src
+```
+
+```
+src/strings.json:3:20: 21 Arabic presentation forms stored  [UNSAFE TO AUTO-FIX]
+    found     : ﺓﺪﺤﺘﻤﻟﺍ ﺔﻴﺑﺮﻌﻟﺍ ﺕﺍﺭﺎﻣﻹﺍ
+    would be  : اإلمارات العربية المتحدة
+    contains a lam-alef ligature; NFKC decomposition reorders the pair, so this
+    recovery is wrong even though it looks like Arabic
+
+3 corrupted span(s) in 1 file(s); 1 cannot be auto-fixed safely.
+```
+
+Exit code 1 when anything is found, so it drops into CI unchanged.
+MIT. **Zero dependencies.** Python 3.9+.
+
+## What it actually detects
+
+The most widely copied recipe for "making Arabic work" in Python is:
+
+```python
+text = get_display(arabic_reshaper.reshape(text))
+```
+
+Those two calls do the job a text engine is supposed to do: substitute each letter
+for its contextual *presentation form*, and reorder the string into visual order.
+If your renderer already does complex text layout — Pillow with Raqm, matplotlib,
+any browser — the work happens twice and the output is wrong.
+
+The real damage is when that string gets **written back**: to a config, an export,
+a translation file. Now the corruption is at rest and every downstream reader
+inherits it. It renders as clean-looking Arabic, so nobody who does not read the
+script will ever notice.
+
+The signature is unambiguous: Arabic **Presentation Forms-B** codepoints
+(U+FE70–U+FEFF) in stored text. Those exist for legacy-encoding compatibility;
+correctly authored modern Arabic never contains them.
+
+## Why it reports instead of fixing
+
+You would think you could just undo it: `NFKC` maps every presentation form back
+to its base letter, and reversing undoes the visual reordering. That round-trips
+exactly — **until the span contains a lam-alef ligature**.
+
+A lam-alef ligature (`لا`, `لأ`, `لإ`, `لآ`) is *one* codepoint standing for *two*
+letters. NFKC expands it in logical order while the text around it is still in
+visual order, so the pair comes out reversed relative to its neighbours:
+
+| original | naive "fix" | |
+|---|---|---|
+| `الإمارات` | `اإلمارات` | not a word |
+| `السلام` | `السالم` | a **real but different** word |
+
+That second row is the whole reason this tool exists rather than a `sed` command.
+The output is still pronounceable Arabic, so it survives a proofread — and the
+definite article followed by alef is one of the most common sequences in the
+language, so this is not a corner case.
+
+`arabic-lint` shows you the candidate recovery and tells you when it is unsafe.
+It never rewrites your files.
+
+## Verification
+
+- **10/10 tests**, no runtime dependency on `arabic_reshaper` or `python-bidi`
+  (fixtures are recorded from a real run of both).
+- Block boundaries were **measured, not assumed**: over a wide Arabic sample,
+  `arabic_reshaper` 3.0.0 emits 53 distinct codepoints from Presentation Forms-B
+  and never emits U+FEFF.
+- **Validated against 3,826 real files** — the false positives that scan found are
+  now regression tests:
+  - **U+FEFF** sits inside Forms-B but is the byte order mark. Excluded.
+  - **Presentation Forms-A is deliberately not a signal.** The reshaper emits
+    exactly one codepoint from it (U+FDF2, the Allah ligature), and that character
+    — like `ﷺ` U+FDFA, `ﷻ` U+FDFB and `﷽` U+FDFD — is used *intentionally* in
+    ordinary Arabic writing. Treating the block as corruption flags correct
+    religious and formal text.
+
+## Known limits
+
+- A document whose only Arabic is a standalone Allah ligature is missed. That is
+  the deliberate trade above; any corrupted phrase around it still trips Forms-B.
+- The recovery direction assumes bidi was applied. Text that was reshaped but
+  *not* reordered recovers reversed. The tool shows you the candidate so you can
+  see which case you have; it does not guess.
+- It detects corruption that is *already stored*. It cannot tell you whether your
+  rendering pipeline is about to create some — for that, check
+  `PIL.features.check("raqm")` at runtime in the environment doing the rendering.
+
+## Related
+
+Part of a series measuring where Arabic silently breaks in software.
+See also [`arabic-tts-frontend`](https://pypi.org/project/arabic-tts-frontend/) —
+numerals, dates and currency converted to spoken Arabic before synthesis.

arabic_lint-0.1.0/pyproject.toml

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+[build-system]
+requires = ["setuptools>=68"]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[project]
+name = "arabic-lint"
+version = "0.1.0"
+description = "Find Arabic text corrupted by reshape+bidi before it was stored. Zero dependencies."
+readme = "README.md"
+requires-python = ">=3.9"
+license = "MIT"
+authors = [{ name = "Syamjith NK", email = "hello@syamjithnk.com" }]
+keywords = ["arabic", "unicode", "bidi", "linter", "i18n", "rtl", "text-shaping"]
+classifiers = [
+    "Development Status :: 4 - Beta",
+    "Intended Audience :: Developers",
+    "Natural Language :: Arabic",
+    "Programming Language :: Python :: 3",
+    "Topic :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance",
+    "Topic :: Text Processing :: Linguistic",
+]
+dependencies = []
+
+[project.urls]
+Homepage = "https://github.com/Syamjith-NK/arabic-lint"
+Issues = "https://github.com/Syamjith-NK/arabic-lint/issues"
+
+[project.scripts]
+arabic-lint = "arabic_lint.cli:main"
+
+[tool.setuptools.packages.find]
+where = ["src"]

arabic_lint-0.1.0/setup.cfg

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+[egg_info]
+tag_build = 
+tag_date = 0
+

arabic_lint-0.1.0/src/arabic_lint/cli.py

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+"""arabic-lint — find Arabic text that was corrupted before it was stored.
+
+    arabic-lint path/to/repo
+    arabic-lint data.json --json
+    arabic-lint . --exclude node_modules --exclude .git
+
+Exit codes:
+    0  clean
+    1  corrupted Arabic found
+    2  usage / IO error
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import argparse
+import json
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from .detect import scan_text
+
+TEXT_SUFFIXES = {
+    ".txt", ".json", ".jsonl", ".csv", ".tsv", ".md", ".yml", ".yaml",
+    ".xml", ".html", ".htm", ".svg", ".po", ".properties", ".strings",
+    ".py", ".js", ".ts", ".tsx", ".jsx", ".java", ".kt", ".swift",
+    ".php", ".rb", ".go", ".rs", ".c", ".h", ".cpp", ".cs", ".sql",
+}
+
+DEFAULT_EXCLUDES = {".git", "node_modules", "__pycache__", ".venv", "venv", "dist", "build"}
+
+
+def iter_files(root: Path, excludes: set[str]):
+    if root.is_file():
+        yield root
+        return
+    for p in sorted(root.rglob("*")):
+        if not p.is_file():
+            continue
+        if any(part in excludes for part in p.parts):
+            continue
+        if p.suffix.lower() in TEXT_SUFFIXES:
+            yield p
+
+
+def main(argv: list[str] | None = None) -> int:
+    ap = argparse.ArgumentParser(
+        prog="arabic-lint",
+        description="Find Arabic text corrupted by reshape+bidi before storage.",
+    )
+    ap.add_argument("paths", nargs="+", type=Path)
+    ap.add_argument("--json", action="store_true", dest="as_json",
+                    help="machine-readable output")
+    ap.add_argument("--exclude", action="append", default=[],
+                    help="directory name to skip (repeatable)")
+    ap.add_argument("--quiet", "-q", action="store_true",
+                    help="only print the summary line")
+    args = ap.parse_args(argv)
+
+    excludes = DEFAULT_EXCLUDES | set(args.exclude)
+    results: list[dict] = []
+    scanned = 0
+
+    for root in args.paths:
+        if not root.exists():
+            print(f"arabic-lint: no such path: {root}", file=sys.stderr)
+            return 2
+        for path in iter_files(root, excludes):
+            try:
+                text = path.read_text(encoding="utf-8")
+            except (UnicodeDecodeError, OSError):
+                continue
+            scanned += 1
+            report = scan_text(text)
+            for f in report.findings:
+                results.append({
+                    "file": str(path),
+                    "line": f.line,
+                    "col": f.col,
+                    "presentation_forms": f.n_presentation,
+                    "text": f.text,
+                    "recovered": f.recovered,
+                    "safe_to_autofix": f.recoverable,
+                    "note": f.note,
+                })
+
+    if args.as_json:
+        json.dump({"scanned": scanned, "findings": results}, sys.stdout,
+                  ensure_ascii=False, indent=2)
+        sys.stdout.write("\n")
+        return 1 if results else 0
+
+    if not args.quiet:
+        for r in results:
+            flag = "" if r["safe_to_autofix"] else "  [UNSAFE TO AUTO-FIX]"
+            print(f"{r['file']}:{r['line']}:{r['col']}: "
+                  f"{r['presentation_forms']} Arabic presentation forms stored{flag}")
+            print(f"    found     : {r['text']}")
+            print(f"    would be  : {r['recovered']}")
+            print(f"    {r['note']}")
+            print()
+
+    unsafe = sum(1 for r in results if not r["safe_to_autofix"])
+    if results:
+        print(f"{len(results)} corrupted span(s) in {scanned} file(s); "
+              f"{unsafe} cannot be auto-fixed safely.")
+        return 1
+    print(f"clean — {scanned} file(s) scanned, no corrupted Arabic found.")
+    return 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(main())

arabic_lint-0.1.0/src/arabic_lint/detect.py

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+"""Detect Arabic text that was corrupted before it was stored.
+
+The corruption this finds is the result of the most widely copied recipe for
+"making Arabic work" in Python:
+
+    text = get_display(arabic_reshaper.reshape(text))
+
+That pair does two things a rendering engine is supposed to do: it substitutes
+each letter for its contextual *presentation form*, and it reorders the string
+into visual order. When the renderer already does complex text layout (Pillow
+with Raqm, matplotlib, any browser), the work is done twice and the output is
+wrong. Worse, the result is often written back to a file, a database or a JSON
+export -- at which point the corruption is at rest, and every downstream reader
+inherits it.
+
+The signature is unambiguous: **Arabic Presentation Forms** codepoints in stored
+text. Those blocks exist for compatibility with legacy encodings; correctly
+authored modern Arabic never contains them. Zero false positives on clean
+Arabic, on Arabic with tashkeel, on mixed Arabic/Latin, or on any other script.
+
+Zero dependencies. Python 3.9+.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import unicodedata
+from dataclasses import dataclass, field
+
+# Arabic Presentation Forms-B is the corruption signal. Measured against
+# arabic_reshaper 3.0.0 over a wide Arabic sample (26 Aug 2026): it emits 53
+# distinct codepoints from this block and never emits U+FEFF.
+PRESENTATION_B = (0xFE70, 0xFEFF)
+
+# U+FEFF sits inside that range but is the BYTE ORDER MARK / zero-width
+# no-break space. It is not Arabic and appears in perfectly healthy files.
+# Flagging it was a real false positive found by scanning a live codebase.
+BOM = 0xFEFF
+
+# Presentation Forms-A (U+FB50-U+FDFF) is deliberately NOT a signal. The
+# reshaper emits exactly one codepoint from it -- U+FDF2, the Allah ligature --
+# and that character, like U+FDFA (ﷺ), U+FDFB (ﷻ) and U+FDFD (﷽), is used
+# intentionally in ordinary Arabic writing. Treating the block as corruption
+# flags correct religious and formal text. The cost of leaving it out is that a
+# document containing only the word Allah as a ligature is missed; any real
+# corrupted phrase around it trips Forms-B anyway.
+PRESENTATION_A_INFORMATIONAL = (0xFB50, 0xFDFF)
+
+# Arabic proper (letters, tashkeel, Arabic-Indic digits).
+ARABIC = (0x0600, 0x06FF)
+
+# The lam-alef ligatures. These are why recovery is not simply reversible:
+# each is ONE codepoint that decomposes to TWO, and it decomposes in logical
+# order while the text around it is in visual order -- so the pair comes out
+# swapped relative to its neighbours.
+LAM_ALEF = frozenset(range(0xFEF5, 0xFEFD))  # U+FEF5..U+FEFC
+
+
+def _in(cp: int, rng: tuple[int, int]) -> bool:
+    return rng[0] <= cp <= rng[1]
+
+
+def is_presentation_form(ch: str) -> bool:
+    """True only for codepoints that indicate baked-in Arabic glyph choices."""
+    cp = ord(ch)
+    return cp != BOM and _in(cp, PRESENTATION_B)
+
+
+def is_arabic(ch: str) -> bool:
+    return _in(ord(ch), ARABIC)
+
+
+def has_lam_alef(text: str) -> bool:
+    """True if the text contains a lam-alef ligature codepoint."""
+    return any(ord(c) in LAM_ALEF for c in text)
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Finding:
+    """One corrupted span."""
+
+    line: int
+    col: int
+    text: str
+    n_presentation: int
+    recoverable: bool
+    recovered: str | None = None
+    note: str = ""
+
+    def __str__(self) -> str:
+        status = "recoverable" if self.recoverable else "UNSAFE to auto-fix"
+        return f"{self.line}:{self.col}: {self.n_presentation} presentation forms ({status})"
+
+
+@dataclass
+class Report:
+    findings: list[Finding] = field(default_factory=list)
+
+    @property
+    def ok(self) -> bool:
+        return not self.findings
+
+    @property
+    def unsafe(self) -> list[Finding]:
+        return [f for f in self.findings if not f.recoverable]
+
+
+def recover(text: str) -> tuple[str, bool, str]:
+    """Best-effort undo of reshape+bidi.
+
+    Returns (recovered_text, is_safe, note).
+
+    NFKC maps each presentation form back to its base letter, and reversing
+    undoes the visual reordering. That round-trips exactly -- *unless* the span
+    contains a lam-alef ligature.
+
+    A lam-alef ligature is a single codepoint standing for two letters. NFKC
+    expands it in logical order, but the surrounding text is in visual order, so
+    the expanded pair ends up reversed relative to everything around it:
+
+        الإمارات  ->  اإلمارات      ("the Emirates" -> not a word)
+        السلام    ->  السالم        ("the peace"    -> "as-saalim", a real but different word)
+
+    That second case is why this is reported rather than silently fixed: the
+    output is still pronounceable Arabic, so it survives a proofread.
+    """
+    if not any(is_presentation_form(c) for c in text):
+        return text, True, "nothing to recover"
+
+    unsafe = has_lam_alef(text)
+    guess = unicodedata.normalize("NFKC", text)[::-1]
+    if unsafe:
+        return guess, False, (
+            "contains a lam-alef ligature; NFKC decomposition reorders the pair, "
+            "so this recovery is wrong even though it looks like Arabic"
+        )
+    return guess, True, "NFKC + reverse round-trips exactly for this span"
+
+
+def scan_text(text: str) -> Report:
+    """Find corrupted spans in a string. Reports one finding per contiguous run."""
+    report = Report()
+    line = 1
+    col = 1
+    run_start: tuple[int, int] | None = None
+    run: list[str] = []
+
+    def flush() -> None:
+        nonlocal run, run_start
+        if run and run_start is not None:
+            span = "".join(run)
+            rec, safe, note = recover(span)
+            report.findings.append(
+                Finding(
+                    line=run_start[0],
+                    col=run_start[1],
+                    text=span,
+                    n_presentation=sum(1 for c in span if is_presentation_form(c)),
+                    recoverable=safe,
+                    recovered=rec,
+                    note=note,
+                )
+            )
+        run = []
+        run_start = None
+
+    for ch in text:
+        if ch == "\n":
+            flush()
+            line += 1
+            col = 1
+            continue
+        if is_presentation_form(ch):
+            if run_start is None:
+                run_start = (line, col)
+            run.append(ch)
+        else:
+            # a space inside a corrupted phrase should not split the finding
+            if run_start is not None and ch.isspace():
+                run.append(ch)
+            else:
+                flush()
+        col += 1
+    flush()
+    return report

arabic_lint-0.1.0/src/arabic_lint.egg-info/PKG-INFO

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+Metadata-Version: 2.4
+Name: arabic-lint
+Version: 0.1.0
+Summary: Find Arabic text corrupted by reshape+bidi before it was stored. Zero dependencies.
+Author-email: Syamjith NK <hello@syamjithnk.com>
+License-Expression: MIT
+Project-URL: Homepage, https://github.com/Syamjith-NK/arabic-lint
+Project-URL: Issues, https://github.com/Syamjith-NK/arabic-lint/issues
+Keywords: arabic,unicode,bidi,linter,i18n,rtl,text-shaping
+Classifier: Development Status :: 4 - Beta
+Classifier: Intended Audience :: Developers
+Classifier: Natural Language :: Arabic
+Classifier: Programming Language :: Python :: 3
+Classifier: Topic :: Software Development :: Quality Assurance
+Classifier: Topic :: Text Processing :: Linguistic
+Requires-Python: >=3.9
+Description-Content-Type: text/markdown
+License-File: LICENSE
+Dynamic: license-file
+
+# arabic-lint
+
+Finds Arabic text that was corrupted **before it was stored** — in your JSON, your
+localisation files, your database exports, your source code.
+
+```bash
+pip install arabic-lint
+arabic-lint ./src
+```
+
+```
+src/strings.json:3:20: 21 Arabic presentation forms stored  [UNSAFE TO AUTO-FIX]
+    found     : ﺓﺪﺤﺘﻤﻟﺍ ﺔﻴﺑﺮﻌﻟﺍ ﺕﺍﺭﺎﻣﻹﺍ
+    would be  : اإلمارات العربية المتحدة
+    contains a lam-alef ligature; NFKC decomposition reorders the pair, so this
+    recovery is wrong even though it looks like Arabic
+
+3 corrupted span(s) in 1 file(s); 1 cannot be auto-fixed safely.
+```
+
+Exit code 1 when anything is found, so it drops into CI unchanged.
+MIT. **Zero dependencies.** Python 3.9+.
+
+## What it actually detects
+
+The most widely copied recipe for "making Arabic work" in Python is:
+
+```python
+text = get_display(arabic_reshaper.reshape(text))
+```
+
+Those two calls do the job a text engine is supposed to do: substitute each letter
+for its contextual *presentation form*, and reorder the string into visual order.
+If your renderer already does complex text layout — Pillow with Raqm, matplotlib,
+any browser — the work happens twice and the output is wrong.
+
+The real damage is when that string gets **written back**: to a config, an export,
+a translation file. Now the corruption is at rest and every downstream reader
+inherits it. It renders as clean-looking Arabic, so nobody who does not read the
+script will ever notice.
+
+The signature is unambiguous: Arabic **Presentation Forms-B** codepoints
+(U+FE70–U+FEFF) in stored text. Those exist for legacy-encoding compatibility;
+correctly authored modern Arabic never contains them.
+
+## Why it reports instead of fixing
+
+You would think you could just undo it: `NFKC` maps every presentation form back
+to its base letter, and reversing undoes the visual reordering. That round-trips
+exactly — **until the span contains a lam-alef ligature**.
+
+A lam-alef ligature (`لا`, `لأ`, `لإ`, `لآ`) is *one* codepoint standing for *two*
+letters. NFKC expands it in logical order while the text around it is still in
+visual order, so the pair comes out reversed relative to its neighbours:
+
+| original | naive "fix" | |
+|---|---|---|
+| `الإمارات` | `اإلمارات` | not a word |
+| `السلام` | `السالم` | a **real but different** word |
+
+That second row is the whole reason this tool exists rather than a `sed` command.
+The output is still pronounceable Arabic, so it survives a proofread — and the
+definite article followed by alef is one of the most common sequences in the
+language, so this is not a corner case.
+
+`arabic-lint` shows you the candidate recovery and tells you when it is unsafe.
+It never rewrites your files.
+
+## Verification
+
+- **10/10 tests**, no runtime dependency on `arabic_reshaper` or `python-bidi`
+  (fixtures are recorded from a real run of both).
+- Block boundaries were **measured, not assumed**: over a wide Arabic sample,
+  `arabic_reshaper` 3.0.0 emits 53 distinct codepoints from Presentation Forms-B
+  and never emits U+FEFF.
+- **Validated against 3,826 real files** — the false positives that scan found are
+  now regression tests:
+  - **U+FEFF** sits inside Forms-B but is the byte order mark. Excluded.
+  - **Presentation Forms-A is deliberately not a signal.** The reshaper emits
+    exactly one codepoint from it (U+FDF2, the Allah ligature), and that character
+    — like `ﷺ` U+FDFA, `ﷻ` U+FDFB and `﷽` U+FDFD — is used *intentionally* in
+    ordinary Arabic writing. Treating the block as corruption flags correct
+    religious and formal text.
+
+## Known limits
+
+- A document whose only Arabic is a standalone Allah ligature is missed. That is
+  the deliberate trade above; any corrupted phrase around it still trips Forms-B.
+- The recovery direction assumes bidi was applied. Text that was reshaped but
+  *not* reordered recovers reversed. The tool shows you the candidate so you can
+  see which case you have; it does not guess.
+- It detects corruption that is *already stored*. It cannot tell you whether your
+  rendering pipeline is about to create some — for that, check
+  `PIL.features.check("raqm")` at runtime in the environment doing the rendering.
+
+## Related
+
+Part of a series measuring where Arabic silently breaks in software.
+See also [`arabic-tts-frontend`](https://pypi.org/project/arabic-tts-frontend/) —
+numerals, dates and currency converted to spoken Arabic before synthesis.

arabic_lint-0.1.0/src/arabic_lint.egg-info/SOURCES.txt

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+LICENSE
+README.md
+pyproject.toml
+src/arabic_lint/__init__.py
+src/arabic_lint/cli.py
+src/arabic_lint/detect.py
+src/arabic_lint.egg-info/PKG-INFO
+src/arabic_lint.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
+src/arabic_lint.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
+src/arabic_lint.egg-info/entry_points.txt
+src/arabic_lint.egg-info/top_level.txt
+tests/test_detect.py

arabic_lint-0.1.0/src/arabic_lint.egg-info/dependency_links.txt

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+

arabic_lint-0.1.0/src/arabic_lint.egg-info/entry_points.txt

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+[console_scripts]
+arabic-lint = arabic_lint.cli:main

arabic_lint-0.1.0/src/arabic_lint.egg-info/top_level.txt

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+arabic_lint

arabic_lint-0.1.0/tests/test_detect.py

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+"""Tests. Run: python3 -m pytest -q   (or python3 tests/test_detect.py)
+
+The reference corruption is produced with arabic_reshaper + python-bidi when they
+are installed; otherwise the same strings are hard-coded from a recorded run, so
+the suite has no runtime dependency on either package.
+"""
+
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+sys.path.insert(0, str(Path(__file__).resolve().parents[1] / "src"))
+
+from arabic_lint.detect import (  # noqa: E402
+    has_lam_alef, is_presentation_form, recover, scan_text,
+)
+
+# Recorded from arabic_reshaper 3.0.0 + python-bidi, verified 26 Aug 2026.
+EMIRATES_CLEAN = "الإمارات"
+EMIRATES_BAD = "ﺕﺍﺭﺎﻣﻹﺍ"      # has lam-alef -> unsafe
+MARHABA_CLEAN = "مرحبا"
+MARHABA_BAD = "ﺎﺒﺣﺮﻣ"                     # no lam-alef -> safe
+
+
+def test_clean_arabic_is_not_flagged():
+    for s in [EMIRATES_CLEAN, "مَرْحَبًا بِكُمْ", "Total: 1,250 درهم", "hello world",
+              "שלום עולם", "المبيعات ٢٠٢٦"]:
+        assert scan_text(s).ok, f"false positive on {s!r}"
+
+
+def test_corrupted_arabic_is_flagged():
+    r = scan_text(EMIRATES_BAD)
+    assert not r.ok
+    assert len(r.findings) == 1
+    assert r.findings[0].n_presentation == 7
+
+
+def test_lam_alef_span_is_reported_unsafe():
+    r = scan_text(EMIRATES_BAD)
+    assert has_lam_alef(EMIRATES_BAD)
+    assert r.findings[0].recoverable is False
+    assert r.unsafe
+
+
+def test_span_without_lam_alef_round_trips_exactly():
+    recovered, safe, _ = recover(MARHABA_BAD)
+    assert safe is True
+    assert recovered == MARHABA_CLEAN
+
+
+def test_lam_alef_recovery_is_wrong_and_says_so():
+    """The whole reason the tool exists: this 'fix' looks like Arabic and is not."""
+    recovered, safe, note = recover(EMIRATES_BAD)
+    assert safe is False
+    assert recovered != EMIRATES_CLEAN
+    assert "lam-alef" in note
+
+
+def test_line_and_column_are_reported():
+    text = "line one\nok here\n" + EMIRATES_BAD + "\n"
+    r = scan_text(text)
+    assert r.findings[0].line == 3
+    assert r.findings[0].col == 1
+
+
+def test_spaces_inside_a_corrupted_phrase_do_not_split_it():
+    r = scan_text(MARHABA_BAD + " " + MARHABA_BAD)
+    assert len(r.findings) == 1
+
+
+def test_presentation_form_classifier():
+    assert is_presentation_form("ﺕ")
+    assert not is_presentation_form("ا")
+    assert not is_presentation_form("a")
+
+
+
+def test_bom_is_not_flagged():
+    """U+FEFF is the byte order mark, not Arabic. Found as a live false positive."""
+    assert not is_presentation_form("\ufeff")
+    assert scan_text("\ufeff{\"a\": 1}").ok
+
+
+def test_legitimate_arabic_ligatures_are_not_flagged():
+    """These are used deliberately in ordinary Arabic writing."""
+    for ch in ["\ufdfa", "\ufdfb", "\ufdf2", "\ufdfd"]:      # PBUH, jalla jalaaluhu, Allah, bismillah
+        assert not is_presentation_form(ch), f"false positive on U+{ord(ch):04X}"
+    assert scan_text("قال النبي \ufdfa كلاما طيبا").ok
+
+
+def _run():
+    fns = [v for k, v in sorted(globals().items()) if k.startswith("test_")]
+    failed = 0
+    for fn in fns:
+        try:
+            fn()
+            print(f"  ok   {fn.__name__}")
+        except AssertionError as e:
+            failed += 1
+            print(f"  FAIL {fn.__name__}: {e}")
+    print(f"\n{len(fns) - failed}/{len(fns)} passed")
+    return 1 if failed else 0
+
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    raise SystemExit(_run())