diff --git a/text_codecs/alphanumeric.py b/text_codecs/alphanumeric.py
index d863468..b7bbe15 100644
--- a/text_codecs/alphanumeric.py
+++ b/text_codecs/alphanumeric.py
@@ -1,6 +1,5 @@
 import string
 import codecs
-from text_codecs.register import register_codec
 from easybits import Bits
 
 allowed_characters = string.ascii_letters + string.digits
@@ -35,5 +34,21 @@ def decode(data):
             print("Error")
             breakpoint()
     return text
-    
+
+def register_codec(encode, decode, name):
+    """Registers a codec so that it can later be used to encode
+    or decode strings and bytes.
+    """
+    def encode_wrapper(text):
+        return encode(text), len(text)
+
+    def decode_wrapper(data):
+        return decode(data), len(data)
+
+    def search_for_codec(query):
+        if query == name:
+            return codecs.CodecInfo(encode_wrapper, decode_wrapper, name=name)
+
+    codecs.register(search_for_codec)
+
 register_codec(encode, decode, "alphanumeric")
diff --git a/text_codecs/ascii7.py b/text_codecs/ascii7.py
index 72dda4c..a6944f2 100644
--- a/text_codecs/ascii7.py
+++ b/text_codecs/ascii7.py
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-from text_codecs.register import register_codec
 from easybits import Bits
+import codecs
 
 def encode(text):
     """An encoder which only handles ASCII: non-ASCII characters
@@ -30,4 +30,20 @@ def decode(data):
         text += Bits(byte).ascii
     return text
 
+def register_codec(encode, decode, name):
+    """Registers a codec so that it can later be used to encode
+    or decode strings and bytes.
+    """
+    def encode_wrapper(text):
+        return encode(text), len(text)
+
+    def decode_wrapper(data):
+        return decode(data), len(data)
+
+    def search_for_codec(query):
+        if query == name:
+            return codecs.CodecInfo(encode_wrapper, decode_wrapper, name=name)
+
+    codecs.register(search_for_codec)
+
 register_codec(encode, decode, "ascii7")
diff --git a/text_codecs/noVow7.py b/text_codecs/noVow7.py
index 47e7381..d8f8fc5 100644
--- a/text_codecs/noVow7.py
+++ b/text_codecs/noVow7.py
@@ -1,31 +1,31 @@
 import string
 import codecs
-from text_codecs.register import register_codec
 from easybits import Bits
 
 vowels = 'aeiouyAEIOUY'
 allowed_chars = string.ascii_letters + string.digits
 
 def encode(text):
-    
-    ascii_chars = []
+    ascii_novow_chars = []
     last_character_was_space = False
     for char in text:
-        if char in allowed_chars:
-            ascii_chars.append(char)
+        if char in allowed_chars and char not in vowels:
+            ascii_novow_chars.append(char)
             last_character_was_space = False
         elif char in string.whitespace and not last_character_was_space:
-            ascii_chars.append(' ')
+            ascii_novow_chars.append(' ')
             last_character_was_space = True
-    ascii_text = ''.join(ascii_chars)
-
-    no_vowels = []
-    for ch in ascii_text:
-        if ch not in vowels:
-            no_vowels.append(ch)
-    
-    return Bits(no_vowels, encoding = 'ascii7')
+    clean_text = ''.join(ascii_novow_chars)
 
+    result = Bits()
+    for char in clean_text:
+        try:
+            b = Bits(char, encoding='ascii')
+            result = result.concat(b[1:])
+        except:
+            b = Bits('?')
+            result = result.concat(b[1:])
+    return result.bytes
 
 def decode(data):
     bits = Bits(bytes(data))
@@ -35,7 +35,23 @@ def decode(data):
         text += Bits(byte).ascii
     return text
 
+def register_codec(encode, decode, name):
+    """Registers a codec so that it can later be used to encode
+    or decode strings and bytes.
+    """
+    def encode_wrapper(text):
+        return encode(text), len(text)
 
-register_codec(encode, decode, "noVow7")
+    def decode_wrapper(data):
+        return decode(data), len(data)
+
+    def search_for_codec(query):
+        if query == name:
+            return codecs.CodecInfo(encode_wrapper, decode_wrapper, name=name)
+
+    codecs.register(search_for_codec)
+
+
+register_codec(encode, decode,"novow7")
 
     
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