WFGY/ProblemMap/GlobalFixMap/LanguageLocale

Language & Locale · Global Fix Map

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Stabilize multilingual RAG and reasoning across CJK, RTL, Indic, Latin, emoji, and locale variants.
This hub localizes language-layer failures and routes you to the exact structural fix. No infra change required.

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What this page is

• A compact language-aware repair guide for retrieval → ranking → reasoning.
• Structural fixes with measurable acceptance targets.
• Store-agnostic. Works with FAISS, Redis, pgvector, Elastic, Weaviate, Milvus, and more.

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When to use

• Corpus spans CJK or Indic scripts and retrieval keeps missing the correct section.
• Queries code-switch or mix scripts, and top-k order drifts across runs.
• Accents/diacritics or fullwidth/halfwidth forms break matching or citations.
• RTL punctuation or control chars flip token order or offsets.
• Token counts jump after deploy even though data did not change.

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Open these first

• Visual recovery map → rag-architecture-and-recovery.md
• Retrieval knobs end-to-end → retrieval-playbook.md
• Traceability and snippet schema → retrieval-traceability.md · data-contracts.md
• Embedding vs meaning → embedding-vs-semantic.md
• Metric and normalization → metric_mismatch.md · normalization_and_scaling.md
• OCR confusables and hyphens → OCR_Parsing README

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Quick routes to per-page guides

Topic	Page
Tokenizer mismatch across languages	tokenizer_mismatch.md
Script mixing in a single query	script_mixing.md
Locale drift and analyzer skew	locale_drift.md
Unicode normalization policy	unicode_normalization.md
CJK segmentation and word-break	cjk_segmentation_wordbreak.md
Fullwidth vs halfwidth, punctuation variants	digits_width_punctuation.md
Diacritics folding rules	diacritics_and_folding.md
RTL and bidi control characters	rtl_bidi_control.md
Transliteration and romanization	transliteration_and_romanization.md
Collation and stable sort keys	locale_collation_and_sorting.md
Numbering systems and sort orders	numbering_and_sort_orders.md
Date and time format variants	date_time_format_variants.md
Time zones and DST stability	timezones_and_dst.md
Keyboard IMEs and composition	keyboard_input_methods.md
Input language switching guards	input_language_switching.md
Emoji, ZWJ, grapheme clusters	emoji_zwj_grapheme_clusters.md
Mixed-locale metadata fields	mixed_locale_metadata.md

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Acceptance targets

• ΔS(question, retrieved) ≤ 0.45 on three paraphrases
• Coverage of target section ≥ 0.70
• λ remains convergent across two seeds
• Tokenization variance for the same query ≤ 12% across environments
• Normalization pass rate for NFKC + width + diacritics ≥ 0.98

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Fix in 60 seconds

1. Normalize once, up front → Apply NFKC, collapse fullwidth/halfwidth, unify diacritics.
2. Match tokenizer and analyzer → Same segmenter for CJK/Indic across embed + store analyzers.
3. Stabilize mixed-script queries → Detect code-switch, split per script, rerank deterministically.
4. Verify → ΔS ≤ 0.45, Coverage ≥ 0.70, λ convergent across two seeds.

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FAQ (Beginner-Friendly)

Q1: Why do answers break when I mix English and Chinese in one query?
A: Most vector stores tokenize differently by script. Without alignment, Chinese words get split incorrectly and English tokens dominate. Fix with script_mixing.md and tokenizer_mismatch.md.

Q2: What does “locale drift” mean?
A: Locale drift happens when environments use different analyzers (e.g., zh_TW vs zh_CN) so the same query splits differently. See locale_drift.md.

Q3: Why do “identical-looking” characters not match?
A: They may differ in width (fullwidth vs halfwidth), normalization (NFKC vs NFD), or diacritics. Always apply unicode_normalization.md and digits_width_punctuation.md.

Q4: How do I handle Arabic or Hebrew text?
A: RTL scripts can insert invisible bidi control chars that flip token order. See rtl_bidi_control.md.

Q5: Do I need different embeddings for each language?
A: No. You can combine multilingual embeddings with deterministic normalization and alias fields. If that fails, only then use fallback translation bridges.

Q6: How do I debug when results change between environments?
A: Compare tokenizer version, analyzer settings, normalization passes, and collation rules. Document them in data-contracts.md.

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