Tokenizer's normalization preprocessor cause misalignment in return_offsets_mapping for tokenizer classification task
Hi @jerryIsHere, thanks for reporting the issue. But are you sure this is a bug in HuggingFace **Datasets**? > Hi @jerryIsHere, thanks for reporting the issue. But are you sure this is a bug in HuggingFace **Datasets**?

Oh, I am sorry
I would reopen the post on huggingface/transformers
[This colab notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/151gKyo0YIwnlznrOHst23oYH_a3mAe3Z?usp=sharing) implements a token classification input pipeline extending the logic from [this hugging example](https://huggingface.co/transformers/custom_datasets.html#tok-ner).

The pipeline works fine with most instance in different languages, but unfortunately, [the Japanese Kana ligature (a form of abbreviation? I don't know Japanese well)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kana_ligature) break the alignment of `return_offsets_mapping`:
![image](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/50871412/122904371-db192700-d382-11eb-8917-1775db76db69.png)

Without the try catch block, it riase `ValueError: NumPy boolean array indexing assignment cannot assign 88 input values to the 87 output values where the mask is true`, example shown here [(another colab notebook)](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1MmOqf3ppzzdKKyMWkn0bJy6DqzOO0SSm?usp=sharing)

It is clear that the normalizer is the process that break the alignment, as it is observed that `tokenizer._tokenizer.normalizer.normalize_str('ヿ')` return 'コト'.

One workaround is to include `tokenizer._tokenizer.normalizer.normalize_str` before the tokenizer preprocessing pipeline, which is also provided in the [first colab notebook](https://colab.research.google.com/drive/151gKyo0YIwnlznrOHst23oYH_a3mAe3Z?usp=sharing) with the name `udposTestDatasetWorkaround`.

I guess similar logics should be included inside the tokenizer and the offsets_mapping generation process such that user don't need to include them in their code. But I don't understand the code of tokenizer well that I think I am not able to do this.

p.s.
**I am using my own dataset building script in the provided example, but the script should be equivalent to the changes made by this [update](https://github.com/huggingface/datasets/pull/2466)**
`get_dataset `is just a simple wrapping for `load_dataset`
and the `tokenizer` is just `XLMRobertaTokenizerFast.from_pretrained("xlm-roberta-large")`