diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index e4b25aa..562ae0b 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 attrs==22.2.0
-beautifulsoup4==4.11.2
+beautifulsoup4==4.13.3
 certifi==2022.12.7
 chardet==5.2.0
 click==8.1.3
diff --git a/setup.cfg b/setup.cfg
index 353b78f..063b149 100644
--- a/setup.cfg
+++ b/setup.cfg
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ python_requires = >=3.9
 
 install_requires =
     attrs >= 18.1, !=20.1.0
-    Beautifulsoup4[chardet] >= 4.0.0
+    Beautifulsoup4[chardet] >= 4.13.0
     click >= 6.7, !=7.0
     requests[use_chardet_on_py3] >= 2.7.0
     saneyaml >= 0.5.2
diff --git a/src/commoncode/text.py b/src/commoncode/text.py
index 04df60f..20c1179 100644
--- a/src/commoncode/text.py
+++ b/src/commoncode/text.py
@@ -143,4 +143,4 @@ def as_unicode(s):
     if not s:
         return s
     assert isinstance(s, bytes), "s must be bytes but is: {}".format(s)
-    return UnicodeDammit(s).markup
+    return UnicodeDammit(s).unicode_markup