diff --git a/htroot/ConfigLanguage_p.java b/htroot/ConfigLanguage_p.java
index 8bfd0b916..c572f1fa7 100644
--- a/htroot/ConfigLanguage_p.java
+++ b/htroot/ConfigLanguage_p.java
@@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ public class ConfigLanguage_p {
 			ArrayList langVector;
 			try{
                 URL u = new URL(url);
-				langVector = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(u, u.getHost(), 6000, null, null, switchboard.remoteProxyConfig));
+				langVector = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(u, u.getHost(), 6000, null, null, switchboard.remoteProxyConfig), "UTF-8");
 			}catch(IOException e){
 				prop.put("status", 1);//unable to get url
 				prop.put("status_url", url);
diff --git a/htroot/ConfigSkins_p.java b/htroot/ConfigSkins_p.java
index 5e77bf11f..c71a32e46 100644
--- a/htroot/ConfigSkins_p.java
+++ b/htroot/ConfigSkins_p.java
@@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ public class ConfigSkins_p {
 			ArrayList skinVector;
 			try{
                 URL u = new URL(url);
-				skinVector = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(u, u.getHost(), 6000, null, null, switchboard.remoteProxyConfig));
+				skinVector = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(u, u.getHost(), 6000, null, null, switchboard.remoteProxyConfig), "UTF-8");
 			}catch(IOException e){
 				prop.put("status", 1);//unable to get URL
 				prop.put("status_url", url);
diff --git a/htroot/sharedBlacklist_p.java b/htroot/sharedBlacklist_p.java
index 2f04a4b88..afaf34af0 100644
--- a/htroot/sharedBlacklist_p.java
+++ b/htroot/sharedBlacklist_p.java
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ public class sharedBlacklist_p {
 
                         // get List
                         URL u = new URL(downloadURL);
-                        otherBlacklist = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(u, u.getHost(), 12000, null, null, switchboard.remoteProxyConfig,reqHeader)); 
+                        otherBlacklist = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(u, u.getHost(), 12000, null, null, switchboard.remoteProxyConfig,reqHeader), "UTF-8"); 
                     } catch (Exception e) {
                         prop.put("status", STATUS_PEER_UNKNOWN);
                         prop.put("page", 1);                      
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@ public class sharedBlacklist_p {
 
                 try {
                     URL u = new URL(downloadURL);
-                    otherBlacklist = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(u, u.getHost(), 6000, null, null, switchboard.remoteProxyConfig)); //get List
+                    otherBlacklist = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(u, u.getHost(), 6000, null, null, switchboard.remoteProxyConfig), "UTF-8"); //get List
                 } catch (Exception e) {
                     prop.put("status", STATUS_URL_PROBLEM);
                     prop.put("status_address",downloadURL);
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/net/natLib.java b/source/de/anomic/net/natLib.java
index fce2d34b2..9147edfe9 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/net/natLib.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/net/natLib.java
@@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ public class natLib {
 
     private static String getIPID() {
 	try {
-        ArrayList x = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(new URL("http://ipid.shat.net/"), "ipid.shat.net", 5000, null, null, null));
+        ArrayList x = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(new URL("http://ipid.shat.net/"), "ipid.shat.net", 5000, null, null, null), "UTF-8");
 	    x = nxTools.grep(x, 2, "Your IP address");
 	    String line = nxTools.tail1(x);
 	    return nxTools.awk(nxTools.awk(nxTools.awk(line, " ", 5), ">", 2), "<", 1);
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/tools/nxTools.java b/source/de/anomic/tools/nxTools.java
index 086080927..20da980fa 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/tools/nxTools.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/tools/nxTools.java
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@ public class nxTools {
 	return props;
     }
     
-    public static HashMap table(byte[] a) {
-        return table(strings(a));
+    public static HashMap table(byte[] a, String encoding) {
+        return table(strings(a, encoding));
     }
     
     public static HashMap table(ArrayList list) {
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyClient.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyClient.java
index f3f8ab8d4..67ef67438 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyClient.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyClient.java
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ public final class yacyClient {
                             (useProxy)?yacyCore.seedDB.sb.remoteProxyConfig:null,
                             null
                     )
-            );
+                    , "UTF-8");
             
             if (result == null || result.size() == 0) { return null; }
             //final Date remoteTime = yacyCore.parseUniversalDate((String) result.get(yacySeed.MYTIME)); // read remote time
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ public final class yacyClient {
                             null, 
                             (useProxy)?yacyCore.seedDB.sb.remoteProxyConfig:null
                     )
-            );
+                    , "UTF-8");
             
             if (result == null || result.size() == 0) { return -1; }
             return Integer.parseInt((String) result.get("response"));
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ public final class yacyClient {
                             null,
                             (useProxy)?yacyCore.seedDB.sb.remoteProxyConfig:null
                     )
-            );
+                    , "UTF-8");
             
 //          yacyCore.log("DEBUG QUERY: query=" + querystr + "; result = " + result.toString());
             if ((result == null) || (result.size() == 0)) return -1;
@@ -917,7 +917,7 @@ public final class yacyClient {
                             null,             
                             (useProxy)?yacyCore.seedDB.sb.remoteProxyConfig:null
                     )
-            );
+                    , "UTF-8");
         } catch (Exception e) {
             // most probably a network time-out exception
             yacyCore.log.logSevere("yacyClient.crawlReceipt error:" + e.getMessage());
@@ -1213,7 +1213,7 @@ public final class yacyClient {
                                     null, 
                                     (useProxy)?yacyCore.seedDB.sb.remoteProxyConfig:null
                     )
-            );
+                    , "UTF-8");
             System.out.println("Result=" + result.toString());
         } catch (Exception e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyPeerActions.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyPeerActions.java
index 7aebb7313..9aff491d0 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyPeerActions.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacyPeerActions.java
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ public class yacyPeerActions {
                         yacyCore.log.logInfo("BOOTSTRAP: seed-list URL " + seedListFileURL + " too old (" + (header.age() / 86400000) + " days)");
                     } else {
                         ssc++;
-                        seedList = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(url, url.getHost(), this.bootstrapLoadTimeout, null, null, this.sb.remoteProxyConfig,reqHeader));
+                        seedList = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(url, url.getHost(), this.bootstrapLoadTimeout, null, null, this.sb.remoteProxyConfig,reqHeader), "UTF-8");
                         enu = seedList.iterator();
                         lc = 0;
                         while (enu.hasNext()) {
@@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ public class yacyPeerActions {
         // read in remote file from url
         try {
             URL u = new URL(url);
-            ArrayList remote = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(u, u.getHost(), 5000, null, null, this.sb.remoteProxyConfig));
+            ArrayList remote = nxTools.strings(httpc.wget(u, u.getHost(), 5000, null, null, this.sb.remoteProxyConfig), "UTF-8");
             if ((remote != null) && (remote.size() > 0)) {
                 Iterator e = remote.iterator();
                 while (e.hasNext()) {
diff --git a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeedDB.java b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeedDB.java
index fb28bda53..f7d344b67 100644
--- a/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeedDB.java
+++ b/source/de/anomic/yacy/yacySeedDB.java
@@ -722,7 +722,7 @@ public final class yacySeedDB {
                 null, 
                 sb.remoteProxyConfig,
                 reqHeader
-        ));
+        ), "UTF-8");
         
         if (check == null) {
             serverLog.logFine("YACY","SaveSeedList: Testing download failed ...");