diff --git a/test/unixTerminal.test.js b/test/unixTerminal.test.js
index 0c7e410..8e41cd2 100644
--- a/test/unixTerminal.test.js
+++ b/test/unixTerminal.test.js
@@ -33,8 +33,8 @@ describe("UnixTerminal", function() {
     });
     it("should return a Buffer when encoding is null", function(done) {
       const term = new UnixTerminal(null, [ '-c', 'cat "' + __dirname + '/utf8-character.txt"' ], {
-          encoding: null,
-        });
+        encoding: null,
+      });
       term.on('data', function(data) {
         assert.equal(typeof data, 'object');
         assert.ok(data instanceof Buffer);
@@ -44,16 +44,17 @@ describe("UnixTerminal", function() {
       });
     });
     it("should support other encodings", function(done) {
-      const term = new UnixTerminal(null, [ '-c', 'cat "' + __dirname + '/utf8-sentence.txt"' ], {
-          encoding: 'base64'
-        });
-      var buf = '';
+      const text = 'test æ!';
+      const term = new UnixTerminal(null, ['-c', 'echo "' + text + '"'], {
+        encoding: 'base64'
+      });
+      let buffer = '';
       term.on('data', function(data) {
         assert.equal(typeof data, 'string');
-        buf += data;
+        buffer += data;
       });
-      term.on('close', function() {
-        assert.equal(buf, 'SGV5LCDDpiEgV2hhZGR1cD8=');
+      term.on('exit', function() {
+        assert.equal(new Buffer(buffer, 'base64').toString().replace('\r', '').replace('\n', ''), text);
         done();
       });
     });
diff --git a/test/utf8-sentence.txt b/test/utf8-sentence.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 5e99e45..0000000
--- a/test/utf8-sentence.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-Hey, æ! Whaddup?
\ No newline at end of file