If you are going to enforce that, then you should update the description telling about this strictness.

I don't see the example strings written by @paulgator as partially correct, but as correct description strings inside some garbage characters which can be ignored or not, depending on the kata description.

There's no device.encode() defined so I cannot make sense from this. Also there's no "plain string" vs. "encoded string". I don't get how the console.log() statements, which call an undefined device.encode() function, can give any help/hint to the solution of the problem.

Could you add some clarification to the kata? How should be interpreted those console.log() statements?

Thanks for your clarification, now I understand your reasons.

WTF! Why, oh why has been this solution upvoted? I believe laoris intended to post a funny solution, but still I think this should show up. I demand down votes get implemented.