Pinyin support for Chinese (Mandarin) subtitles?

[quarridors]

The ‘separate issue’ I mentioned in the comment above about the layout / formatting of the pinyin in chunks is now documented here in excruciating detail (and a tl;dr at the start):

Settings for how Chinese names are machine translated?

I alluded to this elsewhere today, but there’s a much wider and more significant problem with how your API handles ‘words’ and their definitions in Chinese, which becomes extremely obvious once the pinyin romanisation causes these clumps of characters to be highlighted. The tl;dr is that Chinese doesn’t have words, it has characters, it also doesn’t have word boundaries that an API can reliably find. If hover text and clickable definitions are to be at all useful then you need to be able to def…