Fix multiline text truncation#57450
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When truncating text with an ellipsis at the end, the truncation point can land right after a space or punctuation character, producing results like "some text …" or "some text-…". This trims trailing whitespace and ASCII punctuation from the truncated prefix before appending the ellipsis affix.
When text_overflow (e.g. text_ellipsis) was combined with line_clamp > 1, the previous approach computed a flat width budget (wrap_width * max_lines) and truncated the text as a single line. When the truncated text was then word-wrapped, waste at line-break boundaries could push extra content onto the last line, causing it to overflow and get clipped without a visible ellipsis. Add LineWrapper::truncate_wrapped_line(), which walks through characters in a single pass tracking both wrap boundaries and the truncation point simultaneously. On the last allowed line, it truncates and appends the affix (e.g. "…") so the result fits within wrap_width when re-wrapped. Newlines are handled as forced line breaks that consume one of the max_lines budget. A newline encountered on the last allowed line triggers truncation with the affix, since more content follows below. For max_lines == 1 or TruncateFrom::Start, it delegates to the existing truncate_line() with the flat budget, preserving current behavior.
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Improves .text_truncate() in combination with .line_clamp()
This was previously broken because we assumed lines would break evenly.
Release Notes: