From b6483581c458bebfee5c6746e5a713f8072a1c26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Jose=CC=81=20F=2E=20Romaniello?= <jfromaniello@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 13:01:12 -0300
Subject: [PATCH] fix encoding issue. closes #40

---
 .travis.yml            |  1 +
 package.json           | 10 +++++++---
 test/encoding.tests.js | 14 ++++++++++++++
 3 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 test/encoding.tests.js

diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 663b27a..b3d4c98 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
 language: node_js
+before_install: npm i -g npm@1.4.28
 node_js:
   - 0.8
   - 0.10
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diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 8e27c02..3ea713c 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -19,10 +19,14 @@
     "url": "https://github.com/auth0/node-jsonwebtoken/issues"
   },
   "dependencies": {
-    "jws": "~0.2.6"
+    "jws": "~1.0.0"
   },
   "devDependencies": {
-    "chai": "*",
-    "mocha": "*"
+    "atob": "~1.1.2",
+    "chai": "~1.10.0",
+    "mocha": "~2.1.0"
+  },
+  "engines": {
+    "npm": "~1.4.28"
   }
 }
diff --git a/test/encoding.tests.js b/test/encoding.tests.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..c9f81f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/encoding.tests.js
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+var jwt = require('../index');
+var expect = require('chai').expect;
+var atob = require('atob');
+
+describe('encoding', function() {
+
+  it('should properly encode the token', function () {
+    var expected = 'José';
+    var token = jwt.sign({ name: expected }, 'shhhhh');
+    var decoded_name = JSON.parse(atob(token.split('.')[1])).name;
+    expect(decoded_name).to.equal(expected);
+  });
+
+});
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