Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-overflow] Bidi handling for text-overflow and line-clamp ellipses (#12617)

Say your ellipsis string is `… (continued)`, and your block container is set to `unicode-bidi: plain-text`, and contains mostly LTR English text, but also one paragraph of RTL Persian.

For English, there's no ambiguity, and you'd see:

> One upon a time… (continued)

But for Persian it could be:
> (continued) …روزی روزگاری

or
> … (continued)روزی روزگاری

The first one follow the (RTL) bidi paragraph, the second one follows the (LTR) block container.

Though admittedly, usage of `unicode-bidi: plain-text` is rare, if it does occur, I think from a user point of view, going by the actual bidi paragraph would make more sense.

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