Intl.Segmenter

Category: JavaScript
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 87)
Intent stage: Shipped

Breaking change: No
Enterprise impact: None
Spec maturity: Incubation
Web Platform Tests: No

WPT details: https://github.com/tc39/test262/tree/master/test/intl402/Segmenter

Summary

Intl.Segmenter implements methods for finding the location of boundaries in text, including grapheme,word and sentence boundary analysis.

Motivation

Currently, chrome is shipped with Intl.v8BreakIterator - a non standard way for similar functionality. According to https://www.chromestatus.com/metrics/feature/timeline/popularity/556 on 2020 Feb there are 0.74% of the web page use it. Intl.Segmenter is the web standard to replace it.

Standards & signals

Specification: https://tc39.github.io/proposal-intl-segmenter/
Firefox: In development
Safari: In development — Ross Kirsling 1:15 AM (10 hours ago) to me, v8-dev, Daniel, Mathias, Shane, zbraniecki, v8-users, blink-dev JSC have a finished implementation expected to land in the near future (2020-8-21 commented by Ross Kirsling from Sony)
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=6891

Ecosystem

Web Platform Tests: https://wpt.fyi/results/?q=test%2Fintl402%2FSegmenter
Chrome Platform Showcase: https://chrome-platform-showcase.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
GenDN reference: https://gendn.paulkinlan-ea.deno.net/features
chrome.dev demos search: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Achrome.dev+Intl.Segmenter
MDN Web Docs: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=Intl.Segmenter
Baseline status: https://webstatus.dev/?q=Intl.Segmenter

Docs: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xugLpLmgRFnNXK8ztariTAbD2IXueDw1T3VNuuZCz8k/edit#heading=h.xgjl2srtytjt https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LOOt4WPvQdOK3banHkz1V8sdl8Z-7Z9jXBRRS9Ek8-M/edit#slide=id.gc6f73a04f_0_0

Explainers: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-intl-segmenter

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