Split Chinese Characters

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 much with Chinese. See below

Solution 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: 𠀁

Solution 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.