diff --git a/PKG-INFO b/PKG-INFO
index 6eab838..0eb789b 100644
--- a/PKG-INFO
+++ b/PKG-INFO
@@ -1,12 +1,12 @@
 Metadata-Version: 1.0
 Name: texttable
-Version: 0.8.6
+Version: 0.8.7
 Summary: module for creating simple ASCII tables
 Home-page: https://github.com/foutaise/texttable/
 Author: Gerome Fournier
 Author-email: jef(at)foutaise.org
 License: LGPL
-Download-URL: https://github.com/foutaise/texttable/archive/v0.8.6.tar.gz
+Download-URL: https://github.com/foutaise/texttable/archive/v0.8.7.tar.gz
 Description: texttable is a module to generate a formatted text table, using ASCII
         characters.
 Platform: any
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index a54db32..91f1cdf 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Python module for creating simple ASCII tables
 
 ## Availability
 
-This module is available on [PypI](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/texttable/0.8.6), and has been packaged for several Linux/Unix platforms
+This module is available on [PypI](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/texttable/0.8.7), and has been packaged for several Linux/Unix platforms
 ([Debian](https://packages.debian.org/search?&searchon=names&keywords=python-texttable+),
 [FreeBSD](https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/ports.cgi?query=texttable&stype=all), Fedora, Suse...).
 
@@ -195,10 +195,10 @@ DATA
     __author__ = 'Gerome Fournier <jef(at)foutaise.org>'
     __credits__ = 'Jeff Kowalczyk:\n    - textwrap improved import\n ...at...
     __license__ = 'LGPL'
-    __version__ = '0.8.6'
+    __version__ = '0.8.7'
 
 VERSION
-    0.8.6
+    0.8.7
 
 AUTHOR
     Gerome Fournier <jef(at)foutaise.org>
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 9aa5aed..091805f 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -33,11 +33,11 @@
 
 setup(
     name = "texttable",
-    version = "0.8.6",
+    version = "0.8.7",
     author = "Gerome Fournier", 
     author_email = "jef(at)foutaise.org",
     url = "https://github.com/foutaise/texttable/",
-    download_url = "https://github.com/foutaise/texttable/archive/v0.8.6.tar.gz",
+    download_url = "https://github.com/foutaise/texttable/archive/v0.8.7.tar.gz",
     license = "LGPL",
     py_modules = ["texttable"],
     description = DESCRIPTION,
diff --git a/texttable.py b/texttable.py
index 9547cbe..0f50cf2 100644
--- a/texttable.py
+++ b/texttable.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@
 
 __author__ = 'Gerome Fournier <jef(at)foutaise.org>'
 __license__ = 'LGPL'
-__version__ = '0.8.6'
+__version__ = '0.8.7'
 __credits__ = """\
 Jeff Kowalczyk:
     - textwrap improved import
@@ -100,7 +100,7 @@
 Maximilian Hils:
     - fix minor bug for Python 3 compatibility
 
-frinkelpi
+frinkelpi:
     - preserve empty lines
 """
 
@@ -317,7 +317,7 @@ def header(self, array):
         """
 
         self._check_row_size(array)
-        self._header = list(map(str, array))
+        self._header = list(map(obj2unicode, array))
 
     def add_row(self, array):
         """Add a row in the rows stack