From 04ad032a78078804c8f87b6e0cce071d71f873cd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 16:48:56 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Trim leading/trailing whitespace when canonizing words

We have a theory that this is what was causing otherwise
identical-looking values to appear next to each other in the judging
lists of recent games.
---
 empathy.js | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/empathy.js b/empathy.js
index 79a0c44..b039a73 100644
--- a/empathy.js
+++ b/empathy.js
@@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ class Empathy extends Game {
   }
 
   canonize(word) {
-    return word.toLowerCase();
+    return word.trim().toLowerCase();
   }
 
   compute_scores() {
-- 
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