Merge pull request #90 from guigrpa/master

Use UTF-8 instead of ASCII for base64 conversion

Author: wincent

src/utils/__tests__/base64.js

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+import { describe, it } from 'mocha';
+import { expect } from 'chai';
+
+import {
+  base64,
+  unbase64
+} from '../base64';
+
+var exampleUtf8 = 'Some examples: ❤😀';
+var exampleBase64 = 'U29tZSBleGFtcGxlczog4p2k8J+YgA==';
+
+describe('base64 conversion', () => {
+  it('converts from utf-8 to base64', () => {
+    return expect(base64(exampleUtf8)).to.equal(exampleBase64);
+  });
+
+  it('converts from base64 to utf-8', () => {
+    return expect(unbase64(exampleBase64)).to.equal(exampleUtf8);
+  });
+});

src/utils/base64.js

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@
 export type Base64String = string;
 
 export function base64(i: string): Base64String {
-  return ((new Buffer(i, 'ascii')).toString('base64'));
+  return ((new Buffer(i, 'utf8')).toString('base64'));
 }
 
 export function unbase64(i: Base64String): string {
-  return ((new Buffer(i, 'base64')).toString('ascii'));
+  return ((new Buffer(i, 'base64')).toString('utf8'));
 }