Multilingual Mention Detector

A utility that detects and extracts user mentions (handles) from multilingual text content, supporting international characters and unicode patterns.

Capabilities

Unicode-aware mention detection

• Detects a mention @user123 in plain ASCII text and extracts the handle "user123" @test
• Detects a mention @用户名 (Chinese characters) and extracts the handle "用户名" @test
• Detects a mention @مستخدم (Arabic characters) and extracts the handle "مستخدم" @test
• Detects multiple mentions @alice @боб @carlos in mixed script text and extracts all three handles @test

Handle validation with unicode patterns

• Accepts handles with emoji: @user😀 is valid and extracts "user😀" @test
• Stops at whitespace: @user hello extracts only "user" @test
• Stops at punctuation: @user. extracts only "user" (period not included) @test

Implementation

@generates

API

/**
 * Detects user mentions in text with full Unicode support.
 * Mentions start with @ followed by one or more unicode letters, numbers, underscores, or emoji.
 *
 * @param {string} text - The text to scan for mentions
 * @returns {Array<{handle: string, url: string, start: number, end: number}>}
 *          Array of detected mentions with their handles and metadata
 */
function detectMentions(text) {
  // IMPLEMENTATION HERE
}

module.exports = { detectMentions };

Dependencies { .dependencies }

linkify-it { .dependency }

Provides link detection with unicode pattern support for building custom mention schemas.

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