diff --git a/lib/readability.js b/lib/readability.js
index c8b5a52..cd8e0c3 100644
--- a/lib/readability.js
+++ b/lib/readability.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 /*jslint undef: true, nomen: true, eqeqeq: true, plusplus: true, newcap: true, immed: true, browser: true, devel: true, passfail: false */
 /*global window: false, readConvertLinksToFootnotes: false, readStyle: false, readSize: false, readMargin: false, Typekit: false, ActiveXObject: false */
-
+var Buffer = require('buffer').Buffer;
+var Iconv  = require('iconv').Iconv;
 var dbg = (typeof console !== 'undefined') ? function(s) {
     if (readability.debugging) {
         console.log("Readability: " + s);
@@ -2225,7 +2226,11 @@ exports.parse = function parse(theHtml, url, options, callback) {
 		removeClassNames: true
 	};
 	options = Utils.extend({}, defaultOptions, options);
-	
+   if(options.encoding && options.encoding != 'utf8') {
+        body = new Buffer(theHtml, 'binary');
+        iconv = new Iconv(options.encoding, 'utf8');
+        theHtml = iconv.convert(body).toString('utf8');
+    }
 	var startTime = new Date().getTime();
 	//dbg(html);
 	var html = theHtml.replace(/<script[^>]*>([\s\S]*?)<\/script>/gi, '');
@@ -2239,7 +2244,7 @@ exports.parse = function parse(theHtml, url, options, callback) {
 			features : {
 				FetchExternalResources	 : [],
 				ProcessExternalResources : false
-			}
+			},
 		};
 
 		function createDocWithHTMLParser() {
diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index 417beaa..cad8180 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -42,7 +42,10 @@
     "dependencies": {
        "mjsunit.runner": ">=0.1.0",
        "jsdom": ">=0.1.21",
-       "htmlparser": ">=1.7.3"
+       "htmlparser": ">=1.7.3",
+       "html5":">0.1",
+       "main": "iconv",
+        "iconv":">=1.1.3"
     },
     "engines" : { "node" : ">=0.2.5" },
     "directories": {