diff --git a/common.py b/common.py
index cc9ac04..15a6845 100644
--- a/common.py
+++ b/common.py
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ def fetch_page(url):
     log.info('fetching page ' + url)
     response = requests.get(url, headers={'User-Agent': USER_AGENT}, stream=True)
     content = response.raw.read(BUFSIZ, decode_content=True)
-    return content, response.headers
+    return content.decode(response.encoding), response.headers
 
 
 def extract_title(url):
@@ -152,12 +152,6 @@ def extract_title(url):
 
         if 'text/' != headers['content-type'][:len('text/')]:
             return 1, headers['content-type']
-        try:
-            charset = headers['content-type'].split(';')[1]
-            charset = charset.split("=")[1]
-            html_text = html_text.decode(charset)
-        except KeyError:
-            html_text = str(html_text)
 
     result = re.match(r'.*?<title.*?>(.*?)</title>.*?', html_text, re.S | re.M | re.IGNORECASE)
     if result: