How does Chrome decide what to highlight when you double-click Japanese text?

So it turns out v8 has a non-standard multi-language word segmenter and it handles Japanese.

function tokenizeJA(text) {
  var it = Intl.v8BreakIterator(['ja-JP'], {type:'word'})
  it.adoptText(text)
  var words = []

  var cur = 0, prev = 0

  while (cur < text.length) {
    prev = cur
    cur = it.next()
    words.push(text.substring(prev, cur))
  }

  return words
}

console.log(tokenizeJA('どこで生れたかとんと見当がつかぬ。何でも薄暗いじめじめした所でニャーニャー泣いていた事だけは記憶している。'))
// ["どこ", "で", "生れ", "たか", "とんと", "見当", "が", "つ", "か", "ぬ", "。", "何でも", "薄暗い", "じめじめ", "した", "所", "で", "ニャーニャー", "泣", "い", "て", "いた事", "だけ", "は", "記憶", "し", "て", "いる", "。"]

I also made a jsfiddle that shows this.

The quality is not amazing but I’m surprised this is supported at all.