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Replace `graphemer` and `grapheme-splitter` with `Intl.Segmenter` #70

Open cometkim opened 1 month ago

cometkim commented 1 month ago

graphemer (22M weekly downloads on NPM) and grapheme-splitter (6M weekly downloads on NPM) are both for handling grapheme clusters (for counting the length of a Unicode text). But they're outdated, unmaintained for a long time.

The JavaScript's Intl.Segmenter API can replace those packages completely, and is supported by most modern browsers/Node.js/Deno/Bun.

However, it might not be supported in older versions of browsers or some environments like React Native (Hermes). I created unicode-segmenter for those cases. It's compatible with the latest version of the Unicode specification, is way small, and is way performant.

43081j commented 1 month ago

makes sense to me 👍

i think we'd add it to the preferred manifest so we can document the fact there are two solutions (a native one for newer nodes, and a package for older ones). we can just list them as two alternatives