From 9ac30cfc22f3b6dc6be22ad96deef1b523fc26b2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jkissane2 <nobody@makingwithcode.org>
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 12:16:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Finished Compression Lab

---
 text_codecs/hello.txt  |  1 +
 text_codecs/mycodec.py | 18 ++++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 text_codecs/hello.txt

diff --git a/text_codecs/hello.txt b/text_codecs/hello.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..05a682b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/text_codecs/hello.txt
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Hello!
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/text_codecs/mycodec.py b/text_codecs/mycodec.py
index e4be94e..fab00e9 100644
--- a/text_codecs/mycodec.py
+++ b/text_codecs/mycodec.py
@@ -1,12 +1,18 @@
-"This simple codec converts all text to Lowercase."
+from register import register_codec
 
 def encode(text):
     text = text.lower()
-    return text.encode("utf-8")
+    result = ""
+
+    for char in text:
+        if char.isalpha() or char == " ":
+            if char not in "aeiou":
+                result += char
+
+    return result.encode("utf8")
 
 def decode(data):
-    return bytes(data).decode("utf-8").lower()
-
-from register import register_codec
-register_codec(encode, decode, "mycodec")
+    text = bytes(data).decode("utf8")
+    return text
 
+register_codec(encode, decode, "mycodec")
\ No newline at end of file