diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index ddd69d1..468dc56 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ setup(
     name="Crawl4AI",
     version="0.2.73",
     description="🔥🕷️ Crawl4AI: Open-source LLM Friendly Web Crawler & Scrapper",
-    long_description=open("README.md").read(),
+    long_description=open("README.md", encoding="utf-8").read(),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     url="https://github.com/unclecode/crawl4ai",
     author="Unclecode",