pinyin regex matches junk about zhon HOT 2 CLOSED

@bcaller Thanks for using zhon!

This is actually the intended behavior of the syllable constants. The syllables returned above are all valid Pinyin syllables (fo, o, ba, and r). You can see all of these syllables in a dictionary such as mdbg.net.

If you are trying to find Pinyin text amidst English, you should use the word constants (i.e. zhon.pinyin.accented_word, zhon.pinyin.numbered_word, and zhon.pinyin.word). They respect word boundaries and should be able to work within English text (as long as the English words aren't also valid Pinyin words)

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My problem was that many English words such as 'are' are valid. Never mind, I found a better way using a slightly less precise regex. Nice library by the way. I realise now that your original use case was probably more for text that you know is definitely pinyin but you want to type it with numbers and get accents.

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