diff --git a/packages/better_networking/lib/services/http_service.dart b/packages/better_networking/lib/services/http_service.dart
index a883087e..0fc31fcd 100644
--- a/packages/better_networking/lib/services/http_service.dart
+++ b/packages/better_networking/lib/services/http_service.dart
@@ -180,7 +180,7 @@ Future<Stream<HttpStreamOutput>> streamHttpRequest(
   bool noSSL = false,
 }) async {
   final controller = StreamController<HttpStreamOutput>();
-  StreamSubscription<String?>? subscription;
+  StreamSubscription<List<int>?>? subscription;
   final stopwatch = Stopwatch()..start();
 
   cleanup() async {
@@ -296,7 +296,6 @@ Future<Stream<HttpStreamOutput>> streamHttpRequest(
     }
 
     //----------------- Response Handling ---------------------
-    final Stream<String?> outputStream = streamTextResponse(streamedResponse);
 
     HttpResponse getResponseFromBytes(List<int> bytes) {
       return HttpResponse.bytes(
@@ -318,22 +317,22 @@ Future<Stream<HttpStreamOutput>> streamHttpRequest(
     int receivedBytes = 0;
     bool hasEmitted = false;
 
-    subscription = outputStream.listen(
-      (chunk) {
-        if (chunk == null || controller.isClosed) return;
+    subscription = streamedResponse.stream.listen(
+      (bytes) {
+        if (controller.isClosed) return;
 
         final isStreaming = kStreamingResponseTypes.contains(contentType);
 
         if (isStreaming) {
           //For Streaming responses, output every response
-          final response = getResponseFromBytes(chunk.codeUnits);
+          final response = getResponseFromBytes(bytes);
           controller.add((true, response, stopwatch.elapsed, null));
           return;
         }
 
         //For non Streaming events, add output to buffer
-        receivedBytes += chunk.codeUnits.length;
-        buffer.write(chunk);
+        receivedBytes += bytes.length;
+        buffer.write(decodeBytes(bytes, contentType));
 
         if (!hasEmitted &&
             contentLength > 0 &&
diff --git a/packages/better_networking/lib/utils/http_response_utils.dart b/packages/better_networking/lib/utils/http_response_utils.dart
index ac4a143a..f697fc38 100644
--- a/packages/better_networking/lib/utils/http_response_utils.dart
+++ b/packages/better_networking/lib/utils/http_response_utils.dart
@@ -1,9 +1,10 @@
-import 'dart:convert';
 import 'dart:typed_data';
 import 'package:http/http.dart' as http;
 import 'package:http_parser/http_parser.dart';
 import 'package:xml/xml.dart';
 import '../consts.dart';
+import 'dart:convert';
+import 'dart:typed_data';
 
 String? formatBody(String? body, MediaType? mediaType) {
   if (mediaType != null && body != null) {
@@ -51,19 +52,58 @@ Future<http.Response> convertStreamedResponse(
   return response;
 }
 
-Stream<String?> streamTextResponse(
-  http.StreamedResponse streamedResponse,
-) async* {
-  try {
-    if (streamedResponse.statusCode != 200) {
-      final errorText = await streamedResponse.stream.bytesToString();
-      throw Exception('${streamedResponse.statusCode}\n$errorText');
+// Stream<String?> streamTextResponse(
+//   http.StreamedResponse streamedResponse,
+// ) async* {
+//   try {
+//     if (streamedResponse.statusCode != 200) {
+//       final errorText = await streamedResponse.stream.bytesToString();
+//       throw Exception('${streamedResponse.statusCode}\n$errorText');
+//     }
+//     final utf8Stream = streamedResponse.stream.transform(utf8.decoder);
+//     await for (final chunk in utf8Stream) {
+//       yield chunk;
+//     }
+//   } catch (e) {
+//     rethrow;
+//   }
+// }
+
+String getCharset(String contentType) {
+  final match = RegExp(
+    r'charset=([^\s;]+)',
+    caseSensitive: false,
+  ).firstMatch(contentType);
+  return match?.group(1)?.toLowerCase() ?? 'utf-8'; // default to utf-8
+}
+
+String decodeBytes(List<int> bytes, String contentType) {
+  String _decodeUtf16(List<int> bytes, Endian endianness) {
+    final byteData = ByteData.sublistView(Uint8List.fromList(bytes));
+    final codeUnits = <int>[];
+    for (int i = 0; i + 1 < byteData.lengthInBytes; i += 2) {
+      codeUnits.add(byteData.getUint16(i, endianness));
     }
-    final utf8Stream = streamedResponse.stream.transform(utf8.decoder);
-    await for (final chunk in utf8Stream) {
-      yield chunk;
-    }
-  } catch (e) {
-    rethrow;
+    return String.fromCharCodes(codeUnits);
+  }
+
+  final cSet = getCharset(contentType);
+  switch (cSet) {
+    case 'utf-8':
+    case 'utf8':
+      return utf8.decode(bytes, allowMalformed: true);
+    case 'utf-16':
+    case 'utf-16le':
+      return _decodeUtf16(bytes, Endian.little);
+    case 'utf-16be':
+      return _decodeUtf16(bytes, Endian.big);
+    case 'iso-8859-1':
+    case 'latin1':
+      return latin1.decode(bytes);
+    case 'us-ascii':
+    case 'ascii':
+      return ascii.decode(bytes);
+    default:
+      return utf8.decode(bytes, allowMalformed: true); //UTF8
   }
 }