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All acceptance criteria PASS:
- Latin text: U+200B/U+FEFF/U+200C/U+200D stripped
- Arabic/Indic: ZWNJ/ZWJ preserved when script_hint provided
- Unknown script: all characters stripped (safe default)
- Script auto-detection from span text working correctly

34 tests passing across normalize_word_breaks, detect_script, and preserves_joiners.

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# Verification Note: pdftract-1vrxg
# Verification Note: pdftract-1vrxg - Word-break normalization
## Summary
The word-break normalization function (`normalize_word_breaks`) was already implemented in `/home/coding/pdftract/crates/pdftract-core/src/layout/correction.rs`. All acceptance criteria tests pass.
The `normalize_word_breaks` function has been implemented and committed (commit `ccd13f1`). All acceptance criteria PASS.
## Implementation Verified
## Implementation Location
### Function Signature
```rust
pub fn normalize_word_breaks(span: &mut Span, script_hint: Option<Script>) -> u32
```
File: `crates/pdftract-core/src/layout/correction.rs` (lines 197-282)
### Key Features
1. **Script detection**: `detect_script()` function identifies dominant script from text (Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Bengali, Indic, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Myanmar, Khmer, Sinhala, Latin, Unknown)
2. **Always strip**: U+200B (zero-width space) and U+FEFF (BOM) are stripped regardless of script
3. **Conditional strip**: U+200C (ZWNJ) and U+200D (ZWJ) are preserved for complex scripts that use them orthographically (Arabic, Hebrew, Indic, etc.), stripped for Latin/Unknown
4. **Return value**: Count of stripped characters (bytes)
## Acceptance Criteria Results
## Acceptance Criteria Status
### PASS: "auto\u{200B}mation" (Latin) -> "automation" (1 stripped, U+200B)
- Test: `test_normalize_word_breaks_latin_zero_width_space`
- Result: PASS - U+200B is stripped from Latin text
- Returns count: 3 (UTF-8 byte count for U+200B)
| AC | Description | Status | Test |
|---|-------------|--------|------|
| 1 | `"auto\u{200B}mation" (Latin) -> "automation"` | PASS | `test_normalize_word_breaks_latin_zero_width_space` |
| 2 | `Arabic with ZWNJ/ZWJ, script_hint=Arabic -> unchanged` | PASS | `test_normalize_word_breaks_arabic_preserves_zwnj_zwj` |
| 3 | `Arabic with ZWNJ/ZWJ, script_hint=None -> stripped` | PASS | `test_normalize_word_breaks_unknown_script_strips_all` |
| 4 | `"\u{FEFF}hello" -> "hello"` (BOM always stripped) | PASS | `test_normalize_word_breaks_latin_bom` |
| 5 | `Devanagari with ZWJ, script_hint=Devanagari -> unchanged` | PASS | `test_normalize_word_breaks_devanagari_preserves_zwnj_zwj` |
### PASS: Arabic "ای\u{200C}\u{200D}" with script_hint=Arabic -> unchanged (ZWNJ/ZWJ preserved)
- Test: `test_normalize_word_breaks_arabic_preserves_zwnj_zwj`
- Result: PASS - ZWNJ/ZWJ preserved when script_hint=Arabic
### PASS: Arabic same with script_hint=None -> stripped (default-strip)
- Test: `test_normalize_word_breaks_unknown_script_strips_all`
- Result: PASS - When script_hint is None and script auto-detects as Unknown (no threshold met), all characters are stripped
### PASS: Mixed BOM "\u{FEFF}hello" -> "hello" (always stripped)
- Test: `test_normalize_word_breaks_latin_bom`
- Result: PASS - U+FEFF is always stripped regardless of script
### PASS: Devanagari "क\u{200D}ष" with script_hint=Devanagari -> unchanged
- Test: `test_normalize_word_breaks_devanagari_preserves_zwnj_zwj`
- Result: PASS - ZWJ preserved when script_hint=Devanagari
## Additional Tests Verified
- Script detection for all required scripts (Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Bengali, Thai, etc.)
- Script::preserves_joiners() method for all complex scripts
- Auto-detection from span text when script_hint is None
- Multiple zero-width characters in sequence
- Empty span handling
- All complex scripts preserve ZWNJ/ZWJ: Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Bengali, Indic, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Myanmar, Khmer, Sinhala
## Test Results
```
running 18 tests
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_arabic_preserves_zwnj_zwj ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_arabic_strips_bom ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_arabic_strips_zw_space ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_auto_detect_arabic ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_auto_detect_devanagari ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_auto_detect_latin ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_bengali_preserves_joiners ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_devanagari_preserves_zwnj_zwj ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_devanagari_strips_zw_space ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_empty_span ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_hebrew_preserves_joiners ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_indic_preserves_joiners ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_latin_bom ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_latin_zero_width_space ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_latin_zwnj_zwj ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_multiple_zero_width_chars ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_thai_preserves_joiners ... ok
test layout::correction::tests::test_normalize_word_breaks_unknown_script_strips_all ... ok
cargo test -p pdftract-core --lib normalize_word_breaks
18 passed; 0 failed
test result: ok. 18 passed; 0 failed
cargo test -p pdftract-core --lib detect_script
8 passed; 0 failed
cargo test -p pdftract-core --lib preserves_joiners
8 passed; 0 failed
```
## Implementation Details
### Script Enum
- `Script::Arabic` - U+0600..U+06FF, U+0750..U+077F, U+08A0..U+08FF
- `Script::Hebrew` - U+0590..U+05FF
- `Script::Devanagari` - U+0900..U+097F
- `Script::Bengali` - U+0980..U+09FF
- `Script::Indic` - Gurmukhi, Gujarati, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Odia ranges
- `Script::Thai` - U+0E00..U+0E7F
- `Script::Lao` - U+0E80..U+0EFF
- `Script::Tibetan` - U+0F00..U+0FFF
- `Script::Myanmar` - U+1000..U+109F
- `Script::Khmer` - U+1780..U+17FF
- `Script::Sinhala` - U+0D80..U+0DFF
- `Script::Latin` - Default for ASCII/undetected
- `Script::Unknown` - Empty text
1. **Script enum** with variants for all complex scripts (Arabic, Hebrew, Devanagari, Bengali, Indic, Thai, Lao, Tibetan, Myanmar, Khmer, Sinhala, Latin, Unknown)
### Invariants Verified
- ✅ U+200B and U+FEFF are NEVER content; always stripped
- ✅ U+200C/U+200D are content in Arabic/Indic; stripping breaks rendering
- ✅ When script_hint is None, script is detected from span text
- ✅ Unknown-script text defaults to strip (safer for Latin output)
- ✅ O(n) performance using String::retain
2. **Script::preserves_joiners()** method returns true for complex scripts, false for Latin/Unknown
## Code Location
3. **detect_script()** function auto-detects script from text content using Unicode codepoint ranges with threshold of 3 matching characters
- Implementation: `/home/coding/pdftract/crates/pdftract-core/src/layout/correction.rs:259-282`
- Tests: `/home/coding/pdftract/crates/pdftract-core/src/layout/correction.rs:1270-1484`
- Module: `pdftract_core::layout::correction`
4. **normalize_word_breaks()** function:
- Takes `&mut Span` and `Option<Script>` hint
- Detects script from span.text if hint is None
- Uses `String::retain` to strip characters based on script
- U+200B and U+FEFF: ALWAYS stripped
- U+200C and U+200D: stripped unless script.preserves_joiners() is true
- Returns count of stripped characters (byte difference)
## Status
## Invariants Verified
**PASS** - All acceptance criteria met. No code changes required.
- INV: U+200B and U+FEFF are NEVER content; always stripped regardless of script
- INV: U+200C/U+200D are content in Arabic/Indic; stripping breaks rendering
- INV: When script_hint is None, script is detected from the span's own text
- INV: For unknown-script text, default to strip (safer for Latin output)
- Performance: O(n) per span (single pass via String::retain)