diff --git a/examples/emoji.py b/examples/emoji.py
index ab949cabd..66e7d9838 100755
--- a/examples/emoji.py
+++ b/examples/emoji.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 d = path.dirname(__file__) if "__file__" in locals() else os.getcwd()
 
 # It is important to use io.open to correctly load the file as UTF-8
-text = io.open(path.join(d, 'happy-emoji.txt')).read()
+text = io.open(path.join(d, 'happy-emoji.txt'), encoding='utf-8').read()
 
 # the regex used to detect words is a combination of normal words, ascii art, and emojis
 # 2+ consecutive letters (also include apostrophes), e.x It's
diff --git a/examples/parrot.py b/examples/parrot.py
index 5bf317830..fc25b2629 100644
--- a/examples/parrot.py
+++ b/examples/parrot.py
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 d = os.path.dirname(__file__) if "__file__" in locals() else os.getcwd()
 
 # load wikipedia text on rainbow
-text = open(os.path.join(d, 'wiki_rainbow.txt')).read()
+text = open(os.path.join(d, 'wiki_rainbow.txt'), encoding='utf-8').read()
 
 # load image. This has been modified in gimp to be brighter and have more saturation.
 parrot_color = np.array(Image.open(os.path.join(d, "parrot-by-jose-mari-gimenez2.jpg")))
diff --git a/examples/wordcloud_cn.py b/examples/wordcloud_cn.py
index c898727ba..d7388cf65 100644
--- a/examples/wordcloud_cn.py
+++ b/examples/wordcloud_cn.py
@@ -12,9 +12,14 @@
 at the same time using wordcloud with jieba very convenient
 """
 
-import jieba
-jieba.enable_parallel(4)
-# Setting up parallel processes :4 ,but unable to run on Windows
+import sys
+try:
+    import jieba
+except ImportError:
+    sys.exit('For this example you need to pip install jieba')
+if not sys.platform == 'win32':
+    jieba.enable_parallel(4)
+    # Setting up parallel processes :4 ,but unable to run on Windows
 from os import path
 from imageio import imread
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
@@ -24,7 +29,7 @@
 from wordcloud import WordCloud, ImageColorGenerator
 
 # get data directory (using getcwd() is needed to support running example in generated IPython notebook)
-d = path.dirname(__file__) if "__file__" in locals() else os.getcwd()
+d = path.dirname(path.abspath(__file__)) if "__file__" in locals() else path.abspath(os.getcwd())
 
 stopwords_path = d + '/wc_cn/stopwords_cn_en.txt'
 # Chinese fonts must be set
@@ -34,10 +39,10 @@
 imgname1 = d + '/wc_cn/LuXun.jpg'
 imgname2 = d + '/wc_cn/LuXun_colored.jpg'
 # read the mask / color image taken from
-back_coloring = imread(path.join(d, d + '/wc_cn/LuXun_color.jpg'))
+back_coloring = imread(imgname2)
 
 # Read the whole text.
-text = open(path.join(d, d + '/wc_cn/CalltoArms.txt')).read()
+text = open(path.join(d, d + '/wc_cn/CalltoArms.txt'), encoding='utf-8').read()
 
 # if you want use wordCloud,you need it
 # add userdict by add_word()