Spaces ignored in sentence matching

[abmantis]

Spaces are being ignored when matching words. For example:

Sentence: adiciona <item> a [minha ]lista Test input: adiciona batatas à minha lista

Current item match: batatas à minh Expected match: nothing (notice that it has an 'à' and not 'a' in the test input)

The following sentence also results in the same match: adiciona <item> (a|à) [minha ]lista But this will work as expected: adiciona <item> (à|a) [minha ]lista