6 kyu

Unicode Steganography

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  • iduncare Avatar

    Considering the lowest ranking coder who completed this kata is currently a 3kyu, I don't think it's just me. Constructive criticism time. Whoever ranked this as 6 kyu should be fired.

    • Simple Rick Avatar

      Just so I'm sure I understand, is the implication that it should be ranked as more difficult or less difficult?

    • rowcased Avatar

      From a pure coding standpoint, this is a 7 kyu kata. The added layer of having to do a bit of research if you don't know about unicode is the only extra challenge, really.

    • rowcased Avatar

      Also, I enjoyed the challenge; learned something useful about JavaScript & coding in general, then just had fun with my Python solution.

  • anter69 Avatar

    Error message in random tests is wrong:

    encode_hidden_data('flPJPv2xvBS8cm4orBFH', 'QgojnwU'):
    'flPJPv2xvBS8cm4orBFH' should equal 'flPJPv2xvBS8cm4orBFH󠅑󠅧󠅯󠅪󠅮󠅷󠅕
    
    • Simple Rick Avatar

      What's wrong with it?

    • anter69 Avatar

      What's wrong with it?

      'flPJPv2xvBS8cm4orBFH' IS equal 'flPJPv2xvBS8cm4orBFH󠅑󠅧󠅯󠅪󠅮󠅷󠅕'

    • hobovsky Avatar

      In the initial post, the final quote is missing. It can be a copy/paste error, but if it is not, it might mean that the expected contains some starnge unprintable characters.

      Besides the topic of the kata makes an impression that comparison of visual forms might be not good thing to do. When I copy the expected from your post to Notepad++, it shows some nonpriontable characters at the end.

    • Simple Rick Avatar

      They appear equal however if you inspect further they are not. The difference is hidden. This is intentional.

    • anter69 Avatar

      Yeah, I just missed the point completely, but got it finally!

  • dfhwze Avatar

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