diff --git a/comments.py b/comments.py
index 3c069d8..da2fd24 100755
--- a/comments.py
+++ b/comments.py
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ html.appendHTML("<form action=\"comments.py?aid=%i\" method=\"POST\""%aid)
 html.appendHTML("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"seed\" value=\"%i\" />"%seed)
 html.appendHTML("<input placeholder=\"Username\" name=\"username\" /><br />")
 html.appendHTML("<textarea name=\"message\" placeholder=\"Compose your message. Markdown is enabled.\" ></textarea><br />")
-html.appendHTML("<img src=\"data:image/png;base64,%s\" alt=\"Captcha image\" />" % base64.b64encode(capt.getvalue()).encode("UTF-8"))
+html.appendHTML("<img src=\"data:image/png;base64,%s\" alt=\"Captcha image\" />" % base64.b64encode(capt.getvalue()).decode("UTF-8"))
 html.appendHTML("<input placeholder=\"Captcha. lowercase only. case sensitive\" name=\"checkstr\" />")
 html.appendHTML("<input type=\"submit\" /></form>")
 count=storage.count("comments-%i"%aid)