diff --git a/docs/conf.py b/docs/conf.py
index 640dcd7cb..5780db65d 100644
--- a/docs/conf.py
+++ b/docs/conf.py
@@ -191,7 +191,7 @@ htmlhelp_basename = 'Scrapydoc'
 # Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
 # (source start file, target name, title, author, document class [howto/manual]).
 latex_documents = [
-  ('index', 'Scrapy.tex', ur'Scrapy Documentation',
+  ('index', 'Scrapy.tex', u'Scrapy Documentation',
    ur'Scrapy developers', 'manual'),
 ]