Force response encoding to UTF-8 to avoid issues with older versions of requests package

Author: daniel-jones-dev

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](https://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0
 ### Deprecated
 ### Removed
 ### Fixed
+* Force response encoding to UTF-8 to avoid issues with older versions of requests package.
 ### Security
 
 

deepl/http_client.py

@@ -134,6 +134,7 @@ def request(
                 with self._session.request(
                     method, url, data=data, timeout=timeout, **kwargs
                 ) as response:
+                    response.encoding = "UTF-8"
                     return response.status_code, response.text
 
         except (