From 8b15697a1016b80e34526efeb19275d53b534619 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: AJ ONeal <coolaj86@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 09:14:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] convert non-buffer objects first to strings

---
 btoa/index.js | 11 ++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/btoa/index.js b/btoa/index.js
index 4c00e7b..ea124bf 100644
--- a/btoa/index.js
+++ b/btoa/index.js
@@ -2,7 +2,16 @@
   "use strict";
 
   function btoa(str) {
-    return new Buffer(str.toString(), 'binary').toString('base64');
+    var buffer
+      ;
+
+    if (str instanceof Buffer) {
+      buffer = str;
+    } else {
+      buffer = new Buffer(str.toString(), 'binary');
+    }
+
+    return buffer.toString('base64');
   }
 
   module.exports = btoa;