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It really looks like the expected string is wrong in the test!

actual: ドモアリガトゴザイマス
expected: ドモアリガトゴザイマ���

Would be great if someone could fix this.

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Same problem here. Following kata author's "hint" from six months ago re: using decode on all string inputs, and encode on all outputs, but still failing this one test. Debugged by printing out the lengths of the input/output both before and after encode/decode, and it all looks good to me ...

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Same here for me…

I've got the same problem. Which is frustrating since I was proud that I'd figured out encoding for the katakana with python.

I have this exact issue :(. Although, because I'm checking my length after the decoding the len() result gives me 11 for all of them. I wish this was fixed. Would love to complete this kata.

You're not alone, I have the very same issue :) In earlier test you encode it to this string, while decoding result is of length 39 instead of 33, which is odd - I guess we'll have to wait for someone more knowledgeable. Edit: It seems that most of solutions have the exact same problem (I've checked 10+ and all of them had this issue); something most likely happened to the last test as your answer is indeed correct :)