diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 502bb60b..a084a3df 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@
     author='VRSEN',
     author_email='arseny9795@gmail.com',
     description='An opensource agent orchestration framework built on top of the latest OpenAI Assistants API.',
-    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/VRSEN/agency-swarm',
     packages=find_packages(),