I've added two new features: "Ignore punctuation while testing" and "Ignore accents while testing" 🙂

When punctuation is ignored, then commas, periods, question marks, exclamation points, etc. are ignored when comparing what you typed and the correct answer. For example "Hello" will be marked as correct even when the answer was "Hello?". "Hello!" would also be marked as a correct answer, which I think is probably okay.

Ignoring accents (diacritics) works similarly: "ano" would be accepted for "año", etc.

When accents are ignored, they're totally ignored, so if the answer should be "holá" and you type "holà", the answer will also be marked as correct. I'd definitely be interested in feedback on if this is what people want or if when this setting is enabled, answers with no accents should be accepted but accents with incorrect accents should be marked wrong.

These are the first features that have settings to control them! 🙂

By default, punctuation is ignored and accents aren't. To change this, go to the new "My account" page:

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Then change the settings and click "Save":

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For now, these settings apply to all courses that you're taking, but it'd be nice if in the future, you could apply them to individual courses (or individual languages?), as we discussed elsewhere 🙂

Let me know what you think! 🙂