Split Chinese Characters

Question

How can I split foreign characters, such as Chinese, into separate array values using JavaScript?

split() seems to work well with English, but not so m

Answer 1

There is no way to do that reliably using built-in ES5 facilities without using any 3rd party libraries.

The correct way using vanilla JS is to use ES2015 spread operator:

let splitString = [...text];

Examples of strings which would cause the split-based solutions to fail:

Answer 2

Instead of splitting on a space char (which there aren't any in the chinese string), try splitting on an empty string "", which should split each char into its own element.