diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 24422ae..b2d2b48 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
 setup(name='sentic',
       version='0.0.8',
       description='Sentic Package for NLP',
-      long_description=open('README.md').read(),
+      long_description=open('README.md', 'r', encoding='utf-8-sig').read(),
       author=u'David Liu',
       author_email='7david12liu@gmail.com',
       url='https://github.com/daliu/sentic/',