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Are challenge answers being lowercased?

I've noticed that one can't type a capital letter in the answers lately, but I was changing the keyboard anyway. Gave it a try today and entered 8wp instead of 8WP on one of the Java quizzes and it was accepted as correct. Has anyone seen anything official on the subject?

15th Mar 2017, 3:56 PM
Nikolay Nachev
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Answers in the quizzes, challenges and modules have always been case-insensitive. Tried a couple of times with the tutorial questions, self-made quizzes and stuff. You can intermix uppercases with lowercases and still get correct. No official word on this issue (?) though.
15th Mar 2017, 3:59 PM
Hatsy Rei
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believe you are right @Nikolay
15th Mar 2017, 5:18 PM
‎‏‎‏‎Joe
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Ya, I was not able to type <!doctype html> with d capital(D). There's nothing seen official on the subject sir:)😊
15th Mar 2017, 4:04 PM
Dev
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yes, they are change their case from UPPER to LOWERCASE. sometimes I feel so confused😕 I had seen it in Java quizzes.
19th Mar 2017, 1:44 PM
Ajay Agrawal
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@Hatsy, thought it was something new 😃 @Kuba I think that was in a multiple choice.
15th Mar 2017, 4:17 PM
Nikolay Nachev
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I guess this change is made by the Sololearn team for us! As knowing the correct answer, but still getting 'wrong' just because of a change in letter is irritating! Like it if you agree!
26th Mar 2017, 1:26 PM
Harshit Gupta
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@Elric Most likely it was submitted by a user with an older version of an application, where it was possible to set up caps. In any way, this should be changed back, as some languages are case-sensitive...
16th Mar 2017, 6:09 AM
Kuba SiekierzyƄski
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Yep, noticed that a while ago, too. I am definitely sure it has been changed, as some of former Python quizzes demanded to determine a value of a boolean and the correct answer was 'True', not 'true'.
15th Mar 2017, 4:17 PM
Kuba SiekierzyƄski
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@Niko I remember the text area to be fulfilled only if you entered True not true, as capital T takes up more space than the lowercase one ;)
15th Mar 2017, 4:20 PM
Kuba SiekierzyƄski
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Yes, I had also seen in python quiz where I had to print the word 'Python' and for that the correct input was 'python'.
16th Mar 2017, 9:30 AM
Harsh
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I had a quiz where you had to enter B(A) for class inheritance but I couldn't enter a captial A. kept trying butt would just keep putting lower case a. frustrating and was acquired as wrong. was a python quiz
15th Mar 2017, 11:20 PM
Elric Hindy
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