Pleaseee did you figure this out eventually... I ended the journey here too and I am still very curious.

Insufficient testing for invalid input allows incorrect code to pass. (JS at least)

The kata has been retired, maybe it won't allow submits anymore ?

Before that it worked fine

I Cant submit solution.

I think validate the input (especially the string input) is part of the challenge

changed

Ok I fixed the points you pointed, except for the "delta 1 btween the symbol and the value" which I guess is one point of this kata.

Sorry, I don't see what you mean, could you explain ? Do you suggest tests and random test only send valid parameters ?

All agreed, thanks for the feedback

i'll change all that, I don't know what will happen with the former solutions

oops, sorry (I have a similar word in my language with 2 n, for my defense)

Do you think I can change this ? this will invalidate former solutions...

sure, I had doubts about using 'false'. returning an empty string and 0 would be better, for typed language translations.

how can I change this now without invalidating existing solution ?
I'm new to creating katas, I don't know the right way to do these kind of things

Input validation should be removed.

Hi,

It's not said:

• that the dictionary is an array and not an object (it's not a "list" in JS, btw. Let's rather say that the problem here is that a "dictionary" is generally a mapping, not an array)
• that 3 or 4 aren't unicode single char, but strings of 2 chars...

I'd strongly suggest:

• to remove the dictionary and provide the array itself in the reference solution (or even, in the description and let the user do whatever he wants with it)
• having the delta of 1 between the symbol and the value is just... awkward (to not say bad...)

• this example is wrong: dictionnary[3] == ':.' // 4
• it's a bad idea to return different data types.

dictionnary should be dictionary