Swift Transformers matches Hugging Face tokenizers byte-for-byte

The release handles difficult Unicode cases such as Hangul composition, Japanese dakuten, and emoji without drifting from the reference tokenizer behavior

We just released swift-transformers 1.3.3 with byte-per-byte conformance with the referance tokenizers library for complicated multilingual Unicode cases like Hangul combined characters, Japanese voiced-kana dakuten, or emojis such as (pre
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