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 ![](https://github.com/source-foundry/font-v/raw/images/images/font-v-crunch.png)
 
+[![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/source-foundry/font-v.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/source-foundry/font-v)  [![Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/mtbar0q307926xff/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/chrissimpkins/font-v/branch/master)
+
 ## About
 
 font-v is a font version string reporting and modification tool.  It reports and modifies the OpenType name table nameID 5 record in ttf and otf fonts.  
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+#!/usr/bin/env python
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+
+
+from __future__ import unicode_literals
+
+import sys
+import pytest
+
+from fontTools.misc.py23 import unicode, tounicode, tobytes, tostr
+
+
+def test_fontv_fonttools_lib_unicode():
+    test_string = tobytes("hello")
+    test_string_str = tostr("hello")
+    test_string_unicode = tounicode(test_string, 'utf-8')
+    test_string_str_unicode = tounicode(test_string_str, 'utf-8')
+
+    assert (isinstance(test_string, unicode)) is False
+    if sys.version_info[0] == 2:
+        assert (isinstance(test_string_str, unicode)) is False     # str != unicode in Python 2
+    elif sys.version_info[0] == 3:
+        assert (isinstance(test_string_str, unicode)) is True      # str = unicode in Python 3
+    assert (isinstance(test_string_unicode, unicode)) is True      # after cast with fonttools function, Py2+3 = unicode
+    assert (isinstance(test_string_str_unicode, unicode)) is True  # ditto
+    assert test_string_unicode == "hello"