Intl.Segmenter
Background
Breaking down strings
There are multiple concepts that can treated as the elements of which strings are sequences. By increasing size:
Breaking down strings programatically
There are use cases for each kind of breakdown, and browsers ship with libraries to support them, but only the lowest level are exposed to ECMAScript source:
Breaking down strings with Intl.Segmenter
Taking guidance from UAX 29, we expose the higher-level breakdown by constructing locale-dependent iterators.
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