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previousGraphemeStart

function previousGraphemeStart(text, offset): number;

Defined in: helpers.ts:114

Start offset of the grapheme cluster ending at offset (i.e. the extent a Backspace should remove). Grapheme-aware so a native emoji — surrogate pair or ZWJ sequence — is deleted whole. Falls back to surrogate-pair handling when Intl.Segmenter is unavailable.

ParameterType
textstring
offsetnumber

number