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text boundary analysis [45ee0f09]

Tags: computers

Chrome V8 detects text boundaries with:

  • Specifically, v8 uses ICU to do a bunch of Unicode-related text processing things, including breaking text up into words. The ICU boundary-detection code includes a "Dictionary-Based BreakIterator" for languages that don't have spaces, including Japanese, Chinese, Thai, etc.
  • www.instapaper.com/read/1303705767

Character boundary rules: www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries