diff --git a/kgdata/wikidata/db.py b/kgdata/wikidata/db.py
index f24149a..cc0f220 100644
--- a/kgdata/wikidata/db.py
+++ b/kgdata/wikidata/db.py
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ def get_entity_redirection_db(
         readonly=read_only,
         options=dboptions,
         deser_key=partial(str, encoding="utf-8"),
-        deser_value=bytes.decode,
+        deser_value=partial(str, encoding="utf-8"),
         ser_value=str.encode,
     )
 
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@ def get_wp2wd_db(
         options=dboptions,
         readonly=read_only,
         deser_key=partial(str, encoding="utf-8"),
-        deser_value=bytes.decode,
+        deser_value=partial(str, encoding="utf-8"),
         ser_value=str.encode,
     )
 
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index e4813ec..4729b06 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 [tool.poetry]
 name = "kgdata"
-version = "2.3.1"
+version = "2.3.2"
 description = "Library to process dumps of knowledge graphs (Wikipedia, DBpedia, Wikidata)"
 authors = ["Binh Vu <binh@toan2.com>"]
 license = "MIT"