diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d79f1bf..e89c5e3 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 ### Fixes
 - Fix incremental composite keys ([#144](https://github.com/dbeatty10/dbt-mysql/issues/144))
+- Fix UnicodeDecodeErorr on setup.py ([#160](https://github.com/dbeatty10/dbt-mysql/issues/160))
 
 ### Contributors
 - [@lpezet](https://github.com/lpezet) ([#146](https://github.com/dbeatty10/dbt-mysql/pull/146), [#144](https://github.com/dbeatty10/dbt-mysql/issues/144))
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 1441b2c..b463b88 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ def _core_version(plugin_version: str = _plugin_version()) -> str:
     name="dbt-mysql",
     version=_plugin_version(),
     description="The MySQL adapter plugin for dbt",
-    long_description=README.read_text(),
+    long_description=README.read_text(encoding='utf-8'),
     long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
     author="Doug Beatty",
     author_email="doug.beatty@gmail.com",