diff --git a/plugins/PluginDownloader/plugin.py b/plugins/PluginDownloader/plugin.py
index db8f37f82..1858f85fd 100644
--- a/plugins/PluginDownloader/plugin.py
+++ b/plugins/PluginDownloader/plugin.py
@@ -153,7 +153,10 @@ class GithubRepository(GitRepository):
         for file in archive.getmembers():
             if file.name.startswith(prefix + dirname + '/README'):
                 extractedFile = archive.extractfile(file)
-                return extractedFile.read()
+                content = extractedFile.read()
+                if sys.version_info[0] >= 3:
+                    content = content.decode()
+                return content
 
     def _getWritableDirectoryFromList(self, directories):
         for directory in directories:
diff --git a/plugins/PluginDownloader/test.py b/plugins/PluginDownloader/test.py
index 526cea7cd..58c3a0d9b 100644
--- a/plugins/PluginDownloader/test.py
+++ b/plugins/PluginDownloader/test.py
@@ -92,6 +92,11 @@ class PluginDownloaderTestCase(PluginTestCase):
         self.assertNotError('plugindownloader install SpiderDave Pastebin')
         self._testPluginInstalled('Pastebin')
 
+    def testInfo(self):
+        self.assertResponse('plugindownloader info ProgVal Twitter',
+                'Advanced Twitter plugin for Supybot, with capabilities '
+                'handling, and per-channel user account.')
+
 if not network:
     class PluginDownloaderTestCase(PluginTestCase):
         pass