diff --git a/source/net/yacy/document/parser/htmlParser.java b/source/net/yacy/document/parser/htmlParser.java
index b201baab4..0e325b3bd 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/document/parser/htmlParser.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/document/parser/htmlParser.java
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@ import net.yacy.document.AbstractParser;
 import net.yacy.document.Document;
 import net.yacy.document.Idiom;
 import net.yacy.document.ParserException;
+import net.yacy.document.parser.html.CharacterCoding;
 import net.yacy.document.parser.html.ContentScraper;
 import net.yacy.document.parser.html.ScraperInputStream;
 import net.yacy.document.parser.html.TransformerWriter;
@@ -260,6 +261,7 @@ public class htmlParser extends AbstractParser implements Idiom {
             Document document = new htmlParser().parse(url, "text/html", null, new ByteArrayInputStream(content));
             String title = document.dc_title();
             System.out.println(title);
+            System.out.println(CharacterCoding.unicode2html(title, false));
         } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
             e.printStackTrace();
         } catch (IOException e) {
diff --git a/source/net/yacy/kelondro/data/meta/URIMetadataRow.java b/source/net/yacy/kelondro/data/meta/URIMetadataRow.java
index 907e3a2b7..d185e2988 100644
--- a/source/net/yacy/kelondro/data/meta/URIMetadataRow.java
+++ b/source/net/yacy/kelondro/data/meta/URIMetadataRow.java
@@ -376,13 +376,23 @@ public class URIMetadataRow implements URIMetadata {
         // parse elements from comp field;
         byte[] c = this.entry.getColBytes(col_comp, true);
         List<byte[]> cl = ByteBuffer.split(c, (byte) 10);
-        this.comp = new Components(
+        try {
+            this.comp = new Components(
+                        (cl.size() > 0) ? new String(cl.get(0), "UTF-8") : "",
+                        hash(),
+                        (cl.size() > 1) ? new String(cl.get(1), "UTF-8") : "",
+                        (cl.size() > 2) ? new String(cl.get(2), "UTF-8") : "",
+                        (cl.size() > 3) ? new String(cl.get(3), "UTF-8") : "",
+                        (cl.size() > 4) ? new String(cl.get(4), "UTF-8") : "");
+        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
+            this.comp = new Components(
                     (cl.size() > 0) ? new String(cl.get(0)) : "",
                     hash(),
                     (cl.size() > 1) ? new String(cl.get(1)) : "",
                     (cl.size() > 2) ? new String(cl.get(2)) : "",
                     (cl.size() > 3) ? new String(cl.get(3)) : "",
                     (cl.size() > 4) ? new String(cl.get(4)) : "");
+        }
         return this.comp;
     }