From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2020 22:23:32 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Don't throw out punctuation when "canonizing" words
X-Git-Url: https://git.cworth.org/git?p=lmno-server;a=commitdiff_plain;h=5263d08448482739a022a81431214d99ce435322

Don't throw out punctuation when "canonizing" words

This caused a pretty disastrous failure of the game when the team
chose "Programming languages"; people submitted C, C++, and C#; and
the word list they were presented for voting had only C# in it.
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diff --git a/empathy.js b/empathy.js
index 3a3f80d..cb69148 100644
--- a/empathy.js
+++ b/empathy.js
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ class Empathy extends Game {
   }
 
   canonize(word) {
-    return word.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/g, '').toLowerCase();
+    return word.toLowerCase();
   }
 
   compute_scores() {