diff --git a/src/handlers/main.ts b/src/handlers/main.ts
index 8ff4ab9..d3fa83a 100644
--- a/src/handlers/main.ts
+++ b/src/handlers/main.ts
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ import isLocalResource from "../utils/islocal";
 
 import { LocalResourceError, NotHtmlMimetypeError } from "../errors/main";
 import { HandlerInput } from "./handler-input";
+import { Readable } from "stream";
+import { decodeStream, parseEncodingName } from "../utils/http";
 
 export default async function handlePage(
   url: string, // remote URL
@@ -26,6 +28,7 @@ export default async function handlePage(
   }
 
   const response = await axios.get(url);
+  const data: Readable = response.data;
   const mime: string | undefined = response.headers["content-type"]?.toString();
 
   if (mime && mime.indexOf("text/html") === -1) {
@@ -34,7 +37,7 @@ export default async function handlePage(
 
   return getFallbackEngine(urlObj.hostname, engine)(
     new HandlerInput(
-      response.data,
+      await decodeStream(data, parseEncodingName(mime)),
       url,
       requestUrl,
       engine,
diff --git a/src/types/axios.ts b/src/types/axios.ts
index bbb8162..947ccfa 100644
--- a/src/types/axios.ts
+++ b/src/types/axios.ts
@@ -5,4 +5,5 @@ export default axios.create({
     "User-Agent":
       "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/116.0",
   },
+  responseType: "stream",
 });
diff --git a/src/utils/http.ts b/src/utils/http.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..86e436a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/utils/http.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+import { Readable } from "stream";
+import iconv from "iconv-lite";
+
+export async function decodeStream(
+  data: Readable,
+  charset: string = "utf-8",
+): Promise<string> {
+  const strm = data.pipe(iconv.decodeStream(charset)) as IconvStream;
+  return await new Promise(resolve => {
+    strm.collect((_err: Error, body: string) => {
+      resolve(body);
+    });
+  });
+}
+
+export function parseEncodingName(ctype?: string): string {
+  const match = ctype?.match(/charset=([A-Za-z0-9-]+)$/);
+  if (!match) {
+    return "utf-8";
+  }
+  return match[1];
+}
+
+interface IconvStream extends NodeJS.ReadWriteStream {
+  collect: (cb: (err: Error, body: string) => void) => void;
+}