fix: harden arabic terminal rtl rendering

2026-03-06 19:25:12 -05:00
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@@ -152,3 +152,11 @@ The project now features a high-performance, Apple Silicon-optimized pipeline th
    - Implemented comment/blank-line support and invalid-line skipping with line-level warnings.
    - Merged file-based glossary entries with repeatable `--glossary-pair` CLI entries for runtime overrides.
 - **Outcome:** English caption correction can now use a maintained glossary file automatically, while preserving ad-hoc CLI term fixes.
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+## Phase 19: Arabic Terminal Rendering Hardening
+- **Goal:** Improve readability of Arabic captions in terminal environments with mixed LTR/RTL output.
+- **Approach:**
+    - Switched Arabic output to a strict two-line format (`[AR]:` label line + dedicated RTL content line).
+    - Wrapped Arabic caption content in explicit RTL embedding marks for better bidirectional layout stability.
+    - Added punctuation normalization for Arabic display (`،`, `؛`, `؟`) to reduce LTR punctuation artifacts.
+- **Outcome:** Arabic captions render more consistently in terminal output, especially when adjacent to English/French/Spanish caption lines.