diff --git a/Lib/pydoc.py b/Lib/pydoc.py
index 12ae27795cd..c6a84db1106 100755
--- a/Lib/pydoc.py
+++ b/Lib/pydoc.py
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ class or function within a module or module in a package.  If the
 __author__ = "Ka-Ping Yee <ping@lfw.org>"
 __date__ = "26 February 2001"
 __version__ = "$Revision$"
-__credits__ = """Guido van Rossum, for an excellent programming language.
+__credits__ = u"""Guido van Rossum, for an excellent programming language.
 Tommy Burnette, the original creator of manpy.
 Paul Prescod, for all his work on onlinehelp.
 Richard Chamberlain, for the first implementation of textdoc.