diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 36517ba..7b378f7 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.
 
 This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
+## [2.2.1] - 2016-06-15
+### Fixed
+- Sending email with accents: https://github.com/sendgrid/sendgrid-nodejs/issues/239
+- Thanks [eaparango](https://github.com/eaparango)!
+
 ## [2.2.0] - 2016-06-10
 ### Added
 - Automatically add Content-Type: application/json when there is a request body
diff --git a/lib/client.js b/lib/client.js
index 5fe49f7..6339a21 100644
--- a/lib/client.js
+++ b/lib/client.js
@@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ function Client (globalRequest) {
     // add the request body's content length
     if (!isEmpty(endpointRequest.body)) {
       body = JSON.stringify(endpointRequest.body)
-      request.headers['Content-Length'] = body.length
+      request.headers['Content-Length'] = Buffer.byteLength(body)
       request.headers['Content-Type'] = 'application/json'
     }
 
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 763b2e1..d615b93 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   ],
   "name": "sendgrid-rest",
   "description": "HTTP REST client, simplified for Node.js.",
-  "version": "2.2.0",
+  "version": "2.2.1",
   "homepage": "https://sendgrid.com",
   "repository": {
     "type": "git",