diff --git a/blaze-html.cabal b/blaze-html.cabal
--- a/blaze-html.cabal
+++ b/blaze-html.cabal
@@ -7,10 +7,12 @@
 -- The package version. See the Haskell package versioning policy
 -- (http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Package_versioning_policy) for
 -- standards guiding when and how versions should be incremented.
-Version:             0.1
+Version:             0.1.1
 
 -- A short (one-line) description of the package.
-Synopsis:            A blazingly fast HTML generation library.
+Synopsis:            A blazingly fast HTML combinator library.
+Description:         A blazingly fast HTML combinator library for the Haskell
+                     programming language.
 
 -- A longer description of the package.
 -- Description:         
diff --git a/src/Text/Blaze/Internal/Utf8Builder.hs b/src/Text/Blaze/Internal/Utf8Builder.hs
--- a/src/Text/Blaze/Internal/Utf8Builder.hs
+++ b/src/Text/Blaze/Internal/Utf8Builder.hs
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
                -> Char                                     -- ^ Input 'Char'.
                -> a                                        -- ^ Result.
 encodeCharUtf8 f1 f2 f3 f4 c = case ord c of
-    x | x <= 0xFF -> f1 $ fromIntegral x
+    x | x <= 0x7F -> f1 $ fromIntegral x
       | x <= 0x07FF ->
            let x1 = fromIntegral $ (x `shiftR` 6) + 0xC0
                x2 = fromIntegral $ (x .&. 0x3F)   + 0x80