Vernacular form showing in reversal not consistent

I have a LIFT file where the vernacular comes in both Roman and Arabic scripts. In both the French and English reversal indexes, most of the vernacular forms shown (under the French/English in the reversal entry) are Roman script, but some are shown in Arabic script. E.g. the French index has:

But also:

There are no reversal entries in the LIFT file (well, almost none), so these reversals are being created automatically by DAB. But why is it creating some with RS and some with AS?

I’m inserting below the LIFT entries for these two words, with a few irrelevant fields removed. They are identical in form. So why would DAB treat them differently? And how can I force the reversal entries to all be RS?

Thanks,
Jeff

<entry dateCreated="2020-12-19T12:21:57Z" dateModified="2021-05-16T15:55:03Z" id="nahal_7a0512d7-4bb0-4219-a71e-d0aed13eb72b" guid="7a0512d7-4bb0-4219-a71e-d0aed13eb72b">
<lexical-unit>
<form lang="shu-Arab"><text>نَحَلْ</text></form>
<form lang="shu-Latn"><text>nahal</text></form>
</lexical-unit>
<trait name="morph-type" value="stem" />
<sense id="1179d5a7-0868-4035-84fc-ba5da0019046">
<grammatical-info value="n.coll.">
<trait name="inflection-feature" value="{sbj}[num:coll]" />
</grammatical-info>
<gloss lang="en"><text>bees</text></gloss>
<gloss lang="fr"><text>abeilles</text></gloss>
<note type="grammar">
<form lang="en"><text>n.coll</text></form>
</note>
</sense>
</entry>

<entry dateCreated="2020-12-19T12:22:07Z" dateModified="2021-01-02T14:32:09Z" id="tchuuri_7a1ee9f4-dc83-4d0b-b0bb-f0160fb9460b" guid="7a1ee9f4-dc83-4d0b-b0bb-f0160fb9460b">
<lexical-unit>
<form lang="shu-Arab"><text>تُشورِي</text></form>
<form lang="shu-Latn"><text>tchuuri</text></form>
</lexical-unit>
<trait name="morph-type" value="stem" />
<sense id="b6014d02-ee29-4b49-bd24-01131576c7eb">
<grammatical-info value="n.m.">
<trait name="inflection-feature" value="{sbj}[gen:m]" />
</grammatical-info>
<gloss lang="en"><text>a shelter (of millet stalks)</text></gloss>
<gloss lang="fr"><text>abri</text></gloss>
<note type="grammar">
<form lang="en"><text>n.m</text></form>
</note>
</sense>
</entry>

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