diff --git a/lib/request/basic.py b/lib/request/basic.py
index 6f411275e..230444b58 100644
--- a/lib/request/basic.py
+++ b/lib/request/basic.py
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ def checkCharEncoding(encoding):
         return encoding
 
     # http://www.destructor.de/charsets/index.htm
-    translate = { "windows-874": "iso-8859-11", "en_us": "utf8", "macintosh": "iso-8859-1", "euc_tw": "big5_tw", "th": "tis-620", "unicode": "utf8" }
+    translate = { "windows-874": "iso-8859-11", "en_us": "utf8", "macintosh": "iso-8859-1", "euc_tw": "big5_tw", "th": "tis-620", "unicode": "utf8",  "utc8": "utf8"}
 
     for delimiter in (';', ',', '('):
         if delimiter in encoding: