diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
index a1f4b161..8eb1360d 100644
--- a/Rakefile
+++ b/Rakefile
@@ -50,10 +50,6 @@ task :default => [:test, :features]
 
 require 'rake/testtask'
 Rake::TestTask.new(:test) do |test|
-  if `which pygmentize` == ''
-    puts "You must have Pygments installed to run the tests."
-    exit 1
-  end
   test.libs << 'lib' << 'test'
   test.pattern = 'test/**/test_*.rb'
   test.verbose = true
@@ -163,4 +159,4 @@ task :gemspec do
   spec = [head, manifest, tail].join("  # = MANIFEST =\n")
   File.open(gemspec_file, 'w') { |io| io.write(spec) }
   puts "Updated #{gemspec_file}"
-end
\ No newline at end of file
+end
diff --git a/jekyll.gemspec b/jekyll.gemspec
index 88655609..55201ae8 100644
--- a/jekyll.gemspec
+++ b/jekyll.gemspec
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Gem::Specification.new do |s|
   s.add_runtime_dependency('directory_watcher', "~> 1.1")
   s.add_runtime_dependency('maruku', "~> 0.5")
   s.add_runtime_dependency('kramdown', "~> 0.13.4")
-  s.add_runtime_dependency('albino', "~> 1.3")
+  s.add_runtime_dependency('pygments.rb', "~> 0.2.12")
 
   s.add_development_dependency('rake', "~> 0.9")
   s.add_development_dependency('rdoc', "~> 3.11")
diff --git a/lib/jekyll.rb b/lib/jekyll.rb
index 30fcdfd6..65e16cdb 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll.rb
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ require 'English'
 # 3rd party
 require 'liquid'
 require 'maruku'
-require 'albino'
+require 'pygments'
 
 # internal requires
 require 'jekyll/core_ext'
diff --git a/lib/jekyll/tags/highlight.rb b/lib/jekyll/tags/highlight.rb
index ed3a0f70..9ad69b3e 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll/tags/highlight.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll/tags/highlight.rb
@@ -48,7 +48,13 @@ module Jekyll
     end
 
     def render_pygments(context, code)
-      output = add_code_tags(Albino.new(code, @lang).to_s(@options), @lang)
+      @options[:encoding] = 'utf-8'
+
+      output = add_code_tags(
+        Pygments.highlight(code, :lexer => @lang, :options => @options),
+        @lang
+      )
+
       output = context["pygments_prefix"] + output if context["pygments_prefix"]
       output = output + context["pygments_suffix"] if context["pygments_suffix"]
       output