diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 0c64614..aa94c56 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -27,8 +27,9 @@ echo Hello, World! | based encode --b91
 >OwJh>}AQ;r@@Y?FF
 ```
 * Decoding is implicated in the following way 
-```
+```sh
 echo '>OwJh>}AQ;r@@Y?FF' | based --b91
+Hello, World!
 ```