diff --git a/prepare_plot_scatter_2_distrib.py b/prepare_plot_scatter_2_distrib.py
index 1c9baf5..8d6aee5 100644
--- a/prepare_plot_scatter_2_distrib.py
+++ b/prepare_plot_scatter_2_distrib.py
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ if __name__ == '__main__':
             local_topics.append(word)
     labels = [row[0] for row in a[:k]]
 
-    print unicode(", ".join(local_topics)).encode('utf8')
+    print unicode(", ".join(local_topics)).decode('utf8')
     print len(X), len(Y), len(labels)
 
     # write files for plots
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