Intl.Segmenter

[mnater]

There's a TC39 proposal (currently at stage 3) for an text segmentation API: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-intl-segmenter
This could replace the current implementation that uses RegEx to find words.
May be worth having a look at it, although browser support is still unsure...

[mnater]

Chrome and Safari implement it.
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/v8/issues/detail?id=6891#c42
https://webkit.org/blog/11648/new-webkit-features-in-safari-14-1/
FF not yet: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423593

[mnater]

FF (122 nightly, since January 23, 2024) has Intl.Segmeter enabled (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/122).

And its at stage 4 since Jan 21, 2022 (tc39/proposal-intl-segmenter@f419484).