diff --git a/recipes/list_apart.recipe b/recipes/list_apart.recipe
index 497889ae1d..d7998ffd62 100644
--- a/recipes/list_apart.recipe
+++ b/recipes/list_apart.recipe
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ class AListApart (BasicNewsRecipe):
         if not self.extra_css:
             br = self.get_browser()
             self.extra_css = br.open_novisit(
-                'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laMarciana/gutenweb/master/dist/gutenweb.css').read().replace('@charset "UTF-8";', '')
+                'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/laMarciana/gutenweb/master/dist/gutenweb.css').read().decode('utf-8').replace('@charset "UTF-8";', '')
         return self.extra_css
 
     feeds = [