Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-text] Preventing too-short final lines of blocks (Last Line Minimum Length) (#3473)

Just an observations on the question of how to specify the length of the last line (and possibly also the gap on the previous line).  It seems to me that using line length percentages, based on the rendered text, is better than counting characters.

Counting characters is problematic in a large number of non-Latin languages because they use (often multiple) combining marks, which are combined into the same 2-dimensional space as a base character. For example, 10 characters in some languages can be very short, compared to 10 characters in English, eg. أَنْتُنَّ contains 9 characters, but is only about 3-4 Latin characters in width.  Similarly, an emoji such as 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦‍ contains 8 characters in about the width of a couple of english letters.

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