diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 0186095..43451a6 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,11 +6,13 @@
 
 ### 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
 - [@moszutij](https://github.com/moszutij) ([#146](https://github.com/dbeatty10/dbt-mysql/pull/146), [#144](https://github.com/dbeatty10/dbt-mysql/issues/144))
 - [@wesen](https://github.com/wesen) ([#146](https://github.com/dbeatty10/dbt-mysql/pull/146))
 - [@mwallace582](https://github.com/mwallace582) ([#162](https://github.com/dbeatty10/dbt-mysql/pull/162), [#138](https://github.com/dbeatty10/dbt-mysql/issues/138))
+- [@sagunn-echo](https://github.com/sagunn-echo) ([#160](https://github.com/dbeatty10/dbt-mysql/issues/160))
 
 
 ## dbt-mysql 1.1.0 (Feb 5, 2023)
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index c176ec4..3e60e3d 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
 
 # pull long description from README
 this_directory = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
-with open(os.path.join(this_directory, "README.md")) as f:
+with open(os.path.join(this_directory, "README.md"), encoding="utf-8") as f:
     long_description = f.read()