[css-text-4] timing of the virtual word boundary insertion and of the U+200B conversion
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https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/#word-boundary-detection and https://drafts.csswg.org/css-text-4/#word-boundary-expansion say that the virtual word boundary insertion and U+200B expansion happen "before CSS Text Module Level 3 §white-space-phase-1".
This is so that the (possibly virtual) U+200B converted into a space can participate into white space collapsing. This is good, but phase 1 also invokes Segment Break Transformation Rules, and having these be affected by word-boundary-detection and word-boundary-expansion seem undesirable.
it would mean that
aaaa​
bbb
would be rendered as
aaa​bbb
but that if word-boundary-expansion were set to ideographic-space, it would then turn into
aaa  bbb
rather than the more desirable
aaa bbb
So, both of these opperations should be changed to happen
after Segment Break Transformation Rules, but before the rest of Phase I: Collapsing and Transformation.
cc: @fantasai
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