Added block padding to be able to work with leading zeroes, breaks all kind of stuff
diff --git a/tests/test_strings.py b/tests/test_strings.py
index c5803e4..8baa63d 100644
--- a/tests/test_strings.py
+++ b/tests/test_strings.py
@@ -11,8 +11,7 @@
 
     def test_enc_dec(self):
 
-        # TODO: test with unicode strings and non-ascii chars
-        message = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
+        message = u"Euro=\u20ac ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".encode('utf-8')
         print "\tMessage:   %s" % message
 
         encrypted = rsa.encrypt(message, self.pub)
@@ -25,8 +24,8 @@
 
     def test_sign_verify(self):
 
-        # TODO: test with unicode strings and non-ascii chars
-        message = "ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ"
+        message = u"Euro=\u20ac ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ".encode('utf-8')
+        print "\tMessage:   %s" % message
 
         signed = rsa.sign(message, self.priv)
         print "\tSigned:    %s" % signed