diff --git a/docs/config/Tutorials.md b/docs/config/Tutorials.md
index 8f6d7e1ab7..cdfb74d920 100644
--- a/docs/config/Tutorials.md
+++ b/docs/config/Tutorials.md
@@ -62,10 +62,10 @@ from IPython.display import Image, display
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 
 def mm(graph):
-  graphbytes = graph.encode("ascii")
-  base64_bytes = base64.b64encode(graphbytes)
-  base64_string = base64_bytes.decode("ascii")
-  display(Image(url="https://mermaid.ink/img/" + base64_string))
+    graphbytes = graph.encode("utf8")
+    base64_bytes = base64.b64encode(graphbytes)
+    base64_string = base64_bytes.decode("ascii")
+    display(Image(url="https://mermaid.ink/img/" + base64_string))
 
 mm("""
 graph LR;
diff --git a/packages/mermaid/src/docs/config/Tutorials.md b/packages/mermaid/src/docs/config/Tutorials.md
index c6db9dacf9..2da336ab55 100644
--- a/packages/mermaid/src/docs/config/Tutorials.md
+++ b/packages/mermaid/src/docs/config/Tutorials.md
@@ -56,10 +56,10 @@ from IPython.display import Image, display
 import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
 
 def mm(graph):
-  graphbytes = graph.encode("ascii")
-  base64_bytes = base64.b64encode(graphbytes)
-  base64_string = base64_bytes.decode("ascii")
-  display(Image(url="https://mermaid.ink/img/" + base64_string))
+    graphbytes = graph.encode("utf8")
+    base64_bytes = base64.b64encode(graphbytes)
+    base64_string = base64_bytes.decode("ascii")
+    display(Image(url="https://mermaid.ink/img/" + base64_string))
 
 mm("""
 graph LR;