diff --git a/README b/README
index c45ba3c..c1e109d 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 python-ox - the web in a dict
 
 Depends:
- python2.5
+ python >= 2.6
  python-chardet (http://chardet.feedparser.org/)
  python-feedparser (http://www.feedparser.org/)
  python-lxml (http://codespeak.net/lxml/)          [optional]
diff --git a/ox/web/flixter.py b/ox/web/flixter.py
index 2d793b4..e6d6a0a 100644
--- a/ox/web/flixter.py
+++ b/ox/web/flixter.py
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ def get_data(id, timeout=-1):
     data = {
         "url": get_url(id),
     }
-    html = read_url(data['url'], timeout=timeout, timeout=True)
+    html = read_url(data['url'], timeout=timeout, unicode=True)
     doc = document_fromstring(html)
 
     props = {