Intl.Segmenter - Chrome Platform Status

Feature: Intl.Segmenter

Intl.Segmenter implements methods for finding the location of boundaries in text, including grapheme, line, 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.

Documentation

Specification

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink>JavaScript>Internationalization

Enabled by default (tracking bug) in:

Chrome for desktop release 87
Chrome for Android release 87
Chrome for iOS release 87
Android WebView release 87

Consensus & Standardization

After a feature ships in Chrome, the values listed here are not guaranteed to be up to date.

Firefox: In development
Edge: No signal
Safari: In development
Web Developers: No signals

Owners

Intent to Prototype url

Intent to Prototype thread

Comments

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1LOOt4WPvQdOK3banHkz1V8sdl8Z-7Z9jXBRRS9Ek8-M/edit https://github.com/tc39/proposal-intl-segmenter

Last updated on 2021-01-20