diff --git a/ai4ts/__init__.py b/ai4ts/__init__.py
index 781d9f8..4c49348 100644
--- a/ai4ts/__init__.py
+++ b/ai4ts/__init__.py
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@
     "__version__",
 ]
 
-if sys.stdout.encoding == "utf-8":
+if sys.stdout.encoding.lower() == "utf-8":
     # for Unix-like systems (macOS and Linux) that can decode chars like ═ and ╝
     logo = f"""\u001b[34m
 ████████╗██╗███╗   ███╗███████╗    ███████╗███████╗██████╗ ██╗███████╗███████╗    █████╗ ██╗
@@ -22,8 +22,7 @@
    ██║   ██║██║╚██╔╝██║██╔══╝╚════╝╚════██║██╔══╝  ██╔══██╗██║██╔══╝  ╚════██║   ██╔══██║██║
    ██║   ██║██║ ╚═╝ ██║███████╗    ███████║███████╗██║  ██║██║███████╗███████║██╗██║  ██║██║
    ╚═╝   ╚═╝╚═╝     ╚═╝╚══════╝    ╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝  ╚═╝╚═╝╚══════╝╚══════╝╚═╝╚═╝  ╚═╝╚═╝
-v{0.1} - building AI for unified time-series analysis, https://time-series.ai
-\u001b[0m
+ai4ts v{__version__} - building AI for unified time-series analysis, https://time-series.ai \u001b[0m
 """
 else:
     # for Windows platform
@@ -33,8 +32,8 @@
    ██    ██ ██ ████ ██ █████   █████ ███████ █████   ██████  ██ █████   ███████    ███████ ██
    ██    ██ ██  ██  ██ ██                 ██ ██      ██   ██ ██ ██           ██    ██   ██ ██
    ██    ██ ██      ██ ███████       ███████ ███████ ██   ██ ██ ███████ ███████ ██ ██   ██ ██   
-v{0.1} - building AI for unified time-series analysis, https://time-series.ai
-\u001b[0m
+ai4ts v{__version__} - building AI for unified time-series analysis, https://time-series.ai \u001b[0m
 """
+    logo = logo.encode("utf-8").decode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors="ignore")
 
-print(logo.encode("utf8").decode(sys.stdout.encoding, errors="ignore"))
+print(logo)
diff --git a/ai4ts/version.py b/ai4ts/version.py
index f623f66..3a3ced1 100644
--- a/ai4ts/version.py
+++ b/ai4ts/version.py
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@
 #
 # Dev branch marker is: 'X.Y.dev' or 'X.Y.devN' where N is an integer.
 # 'X.Y.dev0' is the canonical version of 'X.Y.dev'
-__version__ = "0.0.2"
+__version__ = "0.0.3"