@ReParker
I hope this explains:
I have replaced commas with semicolons in this course http://www.memrise.com/course/758110/1-the-city/ ; now it is asking for strict typing??? Also, I have problems recording audio in this one…
Hi Hydroptere,
I just tested your course (with the first 5 words) and found no problems with the behaviour. Either salubre and saludable were accepted and deschabolización did not force me to use the diacritical mark. As I am in the middle of replacing commas with semicola myself I am still worried all this work might be useless … where did you encounter the problem you mentioned?
Foorgol
Tag,
later in the course, two or three times - might be also related with the problems Memrise has distinguishing between “l” (wie in “leider”) and “I” (wie “Inhalt”) …
verdammt!!! here is not functioning: “consultora de gestión; asesoría gerencial” in my economics course, probably memrise wants consultora de gestión ; asesoría gerencial !!! at least they should say so!
if useless or nor, hm: it did work in the last days for languages without accents, although probably the best solution is to add zillion invisible alternatives (what for a silly work!)
(was Memrise heute sagt und was morgen tut, das sind zwei ganz unterschiedliche Paar Schuhe)
tapping should be disabled in that course, thanks for pointing that to me know that I have to change that too/ the course is typing/audio review period
- meanwhile i’ve added spaces in front of the semicolons
Please see our recent update for more information on how punctuation behaves on Memrise.
I posted this in the other topic, but I thought it might be good to post it here, too:
I’ve written a userscript that replaces commas with semicolons. Please see this topic for more information 
When combining special characters like ć or č together with diacritic marks, memrise still accepts only either strict typing (including special charakters and diacritic marks) or typing free of special characters and diacritic marks.
As far as I’m aware, Memrise has always behaved this way. For courses with strict typing turned off, either you skip all diacritics and special characters, or you include all of them.
And a small point of clarification, it’s not quite the same as strict typing. Strict typing means you must also match all punctuation and capitalization.
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You’re totally right, it was always like this. With all the chaos produced by memrise, I got confused as well.
The same with Chinese, pelase fix this.
Looks like people editing words / Chinese characters do not know the difference between using ‘;’ and ‘,’ in Memrise.
Some examples where you need to type definition but part of it can’t be used as an answer. This is mega annoying and should be reedited ASAP.
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Character 辛:
** Definition: suffering, hot (in taste, flavor), hard, laborious
** Available answers (besides full deifnition): spicy; tired; eighth; heavenly; stem -
Character 歹
** Definition: chip, evil
** Available answers (besides full deifnition): evil; bad; wicked -
Character 愿
** Definition: willing, desire
** Available answers (besides full deifnition): desire; to wish; to hope; sincere; wish; ready; promise -
Character 斤
** Definition: half a kilo, axe (radical)
** Available answers (besides full deifnition): 0.5 kg; catty -
Character 永
** Definition: forever, always -
Character 即
** Definition: immediately, even if
** Available answers (besides full deifnition):at once; very quickly; to approach -
Character 集
** Definition: to gather, to collect
** Available answers (besides full deifnition): volume; collectively
Semicolon come up as a separate word now 
This has been an issue now for months, how come it’s not yet fixed, please tell me how this could be considered anything but ridiculous and a complete failure on part of the dev and QA team?
This seems like a reasonable way to have the system work to me. If you just enter “guan1 xi5” and hit the “next” button or hit enter, it should mark your answer as correct. If you enter “guan1 xi5; guan1 xi4”, it should mark it as correct, too.
Having the semicolon there allows the people who want to to enter both answers, separated by the semicolon.
[quote=“neoncube, post:153, topic:5070”]
This seems like a reasonable way to have the system work to me. If you just enter “guan1 xi5” and hit the “next” button or hit enter, it should mark your answer as correct. If you enter “guan1 xi5; guan1 xi4”, it should mark it as correct, too.[/quote]
This is what it DOESN’T do; inputting “guan1 xi5” and hitting ENTER takes me to the second screen shot posted i.e. FAIL… 
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Oh :\ Sorry, I shouldn’t have assumed.
