Use the to_unicode helper

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/oauthlib/common.py b/oauthlib/common.py
index db958ce..4a7404c 100644
--- a/oauthlib/common.py
+++ b/oauthlib/common.py
@@ -247,8 +247,8 @@ def generate_crypto_token(private_pem, request):
     }
     request.payload.update(payload)
 
-    token = jwt.encode(request.payload,
-                       private_key, 'RS256').decode(encoding='UTF-8')
+    token = jwt.encode(request.payload, private_key, 'RS256')
+    token = to_unicode(token, "UTF-8")
 
     return token