From 64faca82a6ef8c34a43f27a440cf2e7f6913d7e5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Henriksson <johanhenriksson@live.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2020 14:56:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] properly encode input gzip as utf8 strings

---
 cowait/engine/utils.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/cowait/engine/utils.py b/cowait/engine/utils.py
index 3e638afa..3cd58d40 100644
--- a/cowait/engine/utils.py
+++ b/cowait/engine/utils.py
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 def env_pack(value):
     value = json.dumps(value).encode('utf-8')
     value = gzip.compress(value)
-    return b64encode(value)
+    return b64encode(value).decode('utf-8')
 
 
 def env_unpack(value):