Re: [csswg-drafts] Backslash & Yen sign behavior (#6848)

@annevk, I see from the minutes action items: 

> <TabAtkins> ACTION drott to investigate for Chrome
> <TabAtkins> ACTION emilio to investigate for Firefox

But I have trouble extracting exactly what were supposed to investigate. 
I dug out the removed heuristic:
https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/2b4002d072669ff145b0afc1a47272503e3d7879%5E%21/#:~:text=%2DFontTranscoder%3A%3AConverterType-,FontTranscoder%3A%3AconverterType,-(const%20FontDescription%26%20fontDescription

And as much as I understand from this 10 year old change: We did seem to modify an internal buffer, different from what we do for `text-transform`, but did some extra logic for clipboard handling so that we would not copy out modified strings, but original strings. 

The logic we used was: do this for a list of specified fonts, and if no primary font is specified at all. 

@annevk - are you curious about anything else? 

Looking at the code, I am not very comfortable adding something like this back in - especially the part about keeping a modified representation of the source text internally and having to special case clipboard operations. 
 




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