Awesome! I've been following this API through the TC39 process, as it is a
critical primitive for building full-text indexes using storage APIs.

On Wed, Aug 12, 2020 at 3:17 PM Frank Tang <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Explainer
> https://github.com/tc39/proposal-intl-segmenter
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> Specificationhttps://tc39.github.io/proposal-intl-segmenter/
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> Design docs
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> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xugLpLmgRFnNXK8ztariTAbD2IXueDw1T3VNuuZCz8k/edit#heading=h.xgjl2srtytjt
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> https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1X2zBU3bZ4ergVMWfubCsdnHFzeaDgqiTRJVgvNGjQBs/edit#slide=id.p
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> TAG reviewreview by ECMA402
>
> SummaryIntl.Segmenter implements methods for finding the location of
> boundaries in text, including grapheme, line, word and sentence boundary
> analysis.
>
> MotivationCurrently, 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.
>
> Risks
>
>
> Interoperability and CompatibilityThe specification is moved to Stage 3
> in TC39 2020-Jul meeting with support from ECMA402.
>
> *Gecko*: In development (
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423593)
>

The Gecko bug indicates it was discussed 3 years ago (with a patch?) but I
don't see anything meaningful since then. Is there more activity than there
seems to be?


>
> *WebKit*: No signal
>
> *Web developers*: No signals
>
> ErgonomicsEngineer from Apple believe we should not add line break
> support to the Intl.Segmenter because the developer may abuse the API and
> perform text layout by themselves instead of depending on CSS. The line
> break feature then were removed from the specification in the current shape.
>
>
> Will this feature be supported on all six Blink platforms (Windows, Mac,
> Linux, Chrome OS, Android, and Android WebView)?Yes
>
> Is this feature fully tested by web-platform-tests
> <https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/master/docs/testing/web_platform_tests.md>
> ?Yes https://github.com/tc39/test262/tree/master/test/intl402/Segmenter
>
> Link to entry on the Chrome Platform Status
> https://www.chromestatus.com/feature/6099397733515264
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