diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index f5f8a89..b3c9d8c 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Please read the Celery getting started tutorial::
     http://docs.celeryproject.org/en/latest/getting-started/first-steps-with-celery.html
 
 
-You can easily add Celery to your flask application like this::
+You can easily add Celery to your flask application like this:
 
 ``myapp.py``::
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 97a527e..9aee107 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 Celery integration for Flask
 
 """
+import codecs
 from setuptools import setup
 
 setup(
@@ -15,7 +16,7 @@
     author='Ask Solem',
     author_email='ask@celeryproject.org',
     description='Celery integration for Flask',
-    long_description=__doc__,
+    long_description=codecs.open('README.rst', 'r', 'utf-8').read(),
     py_modules=['flask_celery'],
     zip_safe=False,
     platforms='any',