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Cyrillic characters

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Assessment

Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
javascript, node.js

Research direction

Start with the StackBlitz example linked in the issue and run the npm start reproduction using the jwt.sign and atob flow shown. Compare the ASCII and Cyrillic cases, then establish whether the failure belongs to node-jsonwebtoken or the example's decoding step; done requires a clear explanation of how the Cyrillic payload should be handled.

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Description

How to fix this example?

import jwt from "jsonwebtoken";

// let o = { name: `Hello World!`}
let o = { name: `Привет Мир!`}
let token = jwt.sign( o, `secret`, {
  expiresIn: `1h`,
} );

let [, payload] = token.split( `.` );
let text = atob( payload ); // Error

In terminal npm start stackblitz

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