🌍 JavaScript Intl Supports Word and Sentence Segmentation
The JavaScript Intl namespace contains a Intl.Segmenter object, allowing for precise word and sentence segmentation in various languages
The Intl namespace in JavaScript is getting a lot of nice features over the last years. And I’m not familiar with every of these, so it’s nice to read and learn. For example today I’ve stumbled about an article by Brian Smith from September 3, 2024 called “Locale-sensitive text segmentation in JavaScript with Intl.Segmenter”.
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In this article he explores an object called Intl.Segmenter that solves quite an interesting problem.
It has quite a wide support:
Long story short, it splits strings for you. But not like string.split function, it recognizes words and sentences in different languages and splits the string according to these human-made sections.
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