Fixes#16120.
`unicode-bidi: plaintext` makes browser auto-detect base bidi direction according to bidi algorithm heuristics, on each line separately.
https://drafts.csswg.org/css-writing-modes/#bidi-algo
AFAICT this matches both Android and Desktop behaviors, and is the friendly behavior for mixed-direction users.
Purely LTR users should not be affected — the heuristics return LTR even on "neutral" lines that contain no letters, only punctuation/emojis/digits.
(http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/#P2 — rule P3 defaults to level 0, which is LTR.)
Whereas all RTL language users in practice need to deal with mixed-direction texts, and the ability to split lines to prevent LTR/RTL mixups is extremely handy...
The `text-align: start` ensures LTR-detected lines are displayed left-aligned, and RTL-detected lines right-aligned.
Which again matches both Android and Desktop behaviors.
This is redundant — it seems already the default with current CSS — but is important for mixed-language users, so I wanted to ensure it in case somebody sets alignment on bigger parts of the document in the future.
John Preston
23rd
Beni Cherniavsky-Paskin