diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
index 42b6791..9e5beac 100644
--- a/README.rst
+++ b/README.rst
@@ -6,12 +6,12 @@ Client for resource optimization service for OpenStack.
 
 OpenStack Watcher provides a flexible and scalable resource optimization
 service for multi-tenant OpenStack-based clouds.
-Watcher provides a complete optimization loop—including everything from a
+Watcher provides a complete optimization loop-including everything from a
 metrics receiver, complex event processor and profiler, optimization processor
 and an action plan applier. This provides a robust framework to realize a wide
 range of cloud optimization goals, including the reduction of data center
 operating costs, increased system performance via intelligent virtual machine
-migration, increased energy efficiency—and more!
+migration, increased energy efficiency-and more!
 
 * Free software: Apache license
 * Wiki: http://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Watcher
diff --git a/watcherclient/tests/v1/test_action_plan.py b/watcherclient/tests/v1/test_action_plan.py
index 22831d8..a7c7d3c 100644
--- a/watcherclient/tests/v1/test_action_plan.py
+++ b/watcherclient/tests/v1/test_action_plan.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ ACTION_PLAN2 = {
 }
 
 UPDATED_ACTION_PLAN = copy.deepcopy(ACTION_PLAN1)
-NEW_STATE = 'TRIGGERED'
+NEW_STATE = 'PENDING'
 UPDATED_ACTION_PLAN['state'] = NEW_STATE
 
 fake_responses = {
diff --git a/watcherclient/tests/v1/test_action_plan_shell.py b/watcherclient/tests/v1/test_action_plan_shell.py
index 75eb8ac..74536f0 100644
--- a/watcherclient/tests/v1/test_action_plan_shell.py
+++ b/watcherclient/tests/v1/test_action_plan_shell.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ class ActionPlanShellTest(utils.BaseTestCase):
 
         ap_shell.do_action_plan_start(client_mock, args)
         patch = commonutils.args_array_to_patch(
-            'replace', ['state=TRIGGERED'])
+            'replace', ['state=PENDING'])
         client_mock.action_plan.update.assert_called_once_with(
             'a5199d0e-0702-4613-9234-5ae2af8dafea', patch)
 
diff --git a/watcherclient/v1/action_plan_shell.py b/watcherclient/v1/action_plan_shell.py
index e889adc..dc2658d 100644
--- a/watcherclient/v1/action_plan_shell.py
+++ b/watcherclient/v1/action_plan_shell.py
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ def do_action_plan_start(cc, args):
     action_plan_uuid = getattr(args, 'action-plan')
     if uuidutils.is_uuid_like(action_plan_uuid):
         args.op = 'replace'
-        args.attributes = [['state=TRIGGERED']]
+        args.attributes = [['state=PENDING']]
 
         patch = utils.args_array_to_patch(
             args.op,