Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text-3] treat all-neutral lines same as empty ones for plaintext alignment (#4405)

Just a little comment for now; maybe I'll have something deeper to say later.

There is at least one writing system in which phone numbers are not written from left to right: [N'Ko](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%27Ko_script). It is used increasingly in digital communication; for an example, see [this New York Times story from 2011](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/11/magazine/everyone-speaks-text-message.html), and since then it grew even more.

So, while you should assume that phone numbers, zip codes, credit card numbers, etc. are written from left to right in _most_ languages, you cannot assume it for _all_ languages. Perhaps it's enough to make this exception just for N'Ko (although maybe there are other languages that have such a feature, I'm not 100% sure).

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