diff --git a/lib/request/basic.py b/lib/request/basic.py
index 39e58da52..931839860 100644
--- a/lib/request/basic.py
+++ b/lib/request/basic.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ def checkCharEncoding(encoding):
         return encoding
 
     #http://www.destructor.de/charsets/index.htm
-    translate = { 'windows-874':'iso-8859-11' }
+    translate = { 'windows-874':'iso-8859-11', 'en_us':'utf8' }
 
     for delimiter in (';', ','):
         if delimiter in encoding: