diff --git a/include/uri.hpp b/include/uri.hpp
index 71b0a57..d88d128 100644
--- a/include/uri.hpp
+++ b/include/uri.hpp
@@ -107,6 +107,7 @@ public:
 
 protected:
     string _uri;
+    string _encoding;
     string _document;
 
     /*!
@@ -183,6 +184,21 @@ protected:
     [[nodiscard]]
     string cut_text(const string &text, uint16_t n_chars) const;
 
+    /*!
+     *  @brief  Converts string to UTF-8.
+     *
+     *  @since  0.9.2
+     */
+    [[nodiscard]]
+    inline string to_utf8(const string &str);
+
+    /*!
+     *  @brief  Try to detect the encoding of the document.
+     *
+     *  @since  0.9.2
+     */
+    void detect_encoding();
+
     /*!
      *  @brief  Returns true if document is *HTML.
      *
diff --git a/src/lib/CMakeLists.txt b/src/lib/CMakeLists.txt
index 09d46f1..87fb524 100644
--- a/src/lib/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/src/lib/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -5,6 +5,8 @@ find_package(Poco
   COMPONENTS Foundation Net NetSSL Data DataSQLite JSON XML
   CONFIG)
 
+find_package(Boost COMPONENTS Locale REQUIRED)
+
 file(GLOB_RECURSE sources_lib *.cpp)
 file(GLOB_RECURSE headers_lib ../../include/*.hpp)
 
@@ -22,7 +24,7 @@ target_include_directories(${PROJECT_NAME}
   "$<INSTALL_INTERFACE:${CMAKE_INSTALL_INCLUDEDIR}>")
 
 target_link_libraries(${PROJECT_NAME}
-  PRIVATE pthread
+  PRIVATE pthread Boost::Locale
   PUBLIC stdc++fs)
 
 # If no Poco*Config.cmake recipes are found, look for headers in standard dirs.
diff --git a/src/lib/uri.cpp b/src/lib/uri.cpp
index c875a52..fb0d30c 100644
--- a/src/lib/uri.cpp
+++ b/src/lib/uri.cpp
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 #include "uri.hpp"
 #include "version.hpp"
+#include <boost/locale.hpp>
 #include <Poco/Environment.h>
 #include <Poco/Exception.h>
 #include <Poco/Net/HTTPClientSession.h>
@@ -131,6 +132,7 @@ html_extract URI::get()
     try
     {
         _document = make_request(_uri);
+        _document = to_utf8(_document);
         if (!_document.empty())
         {
             return
@@ -679,6 +681,27 @@ string URI::cut_text(const string &text, const uint16_t n_chars) const
     return text;
 }
 
+string URI::to_utf8(const string &str)
+{
+    if (_encoding.empty())
+    {
+        detect_encoding();
+    }
+
+    return boost::locale::conv::to_utf<char>(str, _encoding);
+}
+
+void URI::detect_encoding()
+{
+    const RegEx re_encoding(R"(<meta.+charset=(.+)[";])", RegEx::RE_CASELESS);
+    vector<string> matches;
+    re_encoding.split(_document, matches);
+    if (matches.size() >= 2)
+    {
+        _encoding = matches[1];
+    }
+}
+
 bool URI::is_html() const
 {
     const RegEx re_htmlfile(".*\\.(.?html?|xml|rss)$", RegEx::RE_CASELESS);