diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index cbf80d1..b5f5d82 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -187,3 +187,4 @@ me and let me know (or just issue a pull request on GitHub, and leave a note abo
 - **[terrycojones](https://github.com/terrycojones)**, Error cleanup and Exception processing in 2.3.0.  
 - **[Leandro Ferreira](https://github.com/leandroferreira)**, Fix for double-encoding of search queries in 2.3.0.  
 - **[Chris Brown](https://github.com/chbrown)**, Updated to use v1.1 endpoints over v1  
+- **[Virendra Rajput](https://github.com/bkvirendra)**, Fixed unicode (json) encoding in twython.py 2.7.2.  
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 02cfa0a..cca5a26 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -194,3 +194,4 @@ me and let me know (or just issue a pull request on GitHub, and leave a note abo
 - `terrycojones <https://github.com/terrycojones>`_, Error cleanup and Exception processing in 2.3.0.  
 - `Leandro Ferreira <https://github.com/leandroferreira>`_, Fix for double-encoding of search queries in 2.3.0.  
 - `Chris Brown <https://github.com/chbrown>`_, Updated to use v1.1 endpoints over v1  
+- `Virendra Rajput <https://github.com/bkvirendra>`_, Fixed unicode (json) encoding in twython.py 2.7.2.  
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ceb205f..198584c 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ from setuptools import setup
 from setuptools import find_packages
 
 __author__ = 'Ryan McGrath <ryan@venodesigns.net>'
-__version__ = '2.7.1'
+__version__ = '2.7.2'
 
 setup(
     # Basic package information.
diff --git a/twython/twython.py b/twython/twython.py
index afd968b..b3c50b0 100644
--- a/twython/twython.py
+++ b/twython/twython.py
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@
 """
 
 __author__ = "Ryan McGrath <ryan@venodesigns.net>"
-__version__ = "2.7.1"
+__version__ = "2.7.2"
 
 import urllib
 import re