French commas and accents challenges

Questions
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I am translating “Guess My Rule” for my French immersion teachers. I am struggling with two of the slides and I’m hoping someone can help. Here is the link to my translated document: Guess My Rule - French Version • Activity Builder by Desmos Classroom

Slide 3: Students are supposed to be able to enter decimal numbers, ex. 3.2. However, it won’t accept the French use of a comma, ex. 3,2. I changed the slide, for now, to tell them they have to use whole numbers but I’d love if they could enter decimals, using a comma.

Slide 5: Students are able to enter words, however, it won’t accept words with accents. I added p.literal(“é”) as a test. (I actually added all of the accented letters to letter = p.anyOf(…) but only added when r#=“é” “F” to row#Out for testing purposes. So right, now, I would only expect it to accept “é”, but it does not. Any suggestions of how to make this work?

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For Screen 3, the use of commas vs. periods for decimals has come up before, but there aren’t any plans to work on that. There are conflicts for ordered pairs, function calls, etc. where commas are used. Here’s a workaround for converting using commas to decimals. There’s an input version, and a table version.

As to Screen 5, it looks like the CL is treating the input as an expression and attempting to check if they are all “variables”. Rather than do that, the second table is checking whether there are any numbers. It works with special characters, but it’s not perfect, and I didn’t test more than a few special characters. Using latex within a string breaks it, but the same is true for your activity. Semicolons also break it, but it will accept periods or hyphens, where the original will not.

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Thank you. I will see if I can make it work!