Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-fonts-5] Removing font-language-override (#5484)

This is coming up again, due to https://github.com/WebKit/WebKit/pull/14837

A few new thoughts:

1. Ideally it should be possible to achieve this via `lang` values like `ja-Latn`
2. Almost all native text editors don't have an override just for shaping
3. If `lang` isn't expressive enough, it seems like we should be going to either HTML or the IETF (who defines BCP47) to make it expressive enough
4. `font-language-override` has a pretty bad fallback story; there is no guarantee the font that actually gets chosen to be used by the UA actually supports the value supplied. `lang` can and does affect font selection, though.

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