diff --git a/colout/colout.py b/colout/colout.py
index 3cfaa61..39e8a0f 100755
--- a/colout/colout.py
+++ b/colout/colout.py
@@ -31,8 +31,6 @@ signal.signal( signal.SIGPIPE, signal.SIG_DFL )
 # Global variable(s)
 ###############################################################################
 
-PY2 = sys.version_info.major == 2
-
 context = {}
 debug = False
 
@@ -744,9 +742,6 @@ def write(colored, stream = sys.stdout):
     """
     Write "colored" on sys.stdout, then flush.
     """
-    if PY2: # If Python 2.x: force unicode
-        if isinstance(colored, unicode):
-            colored = colored.encode('utf-8')
     try:
         stream.write(colored)
         stream.flush()
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 0be5ef3..9457291 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ setup(
     entry_points={
         'console_scripts': ['colout=colout.colout:main'],
     },
-    long_description=open('README.md').read(),
+    long_description=open(os.path.join(os.path.dirname(__file__), 'README.md')).read(),
     author='nojhan',
     author_email='nojhan@nojhan.net',
     url='http://nojhan.github.com/colout/',