From 9f5010f7376b670b536118868c9669d97b92f8ee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gEndelf <alex.com.ua@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:05:40 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix response encoding

---
 overpass/api.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/overpass/api.py b/overpass/api.py
index 3b6c7861b39..9580e201001 100644
--- a/overpass/api.py
+++ b/overpass/api.py
@@ -86,7 +86,8 @@ def _GetFromOverpass(self, query):
             r = requests.post(
                 self.endpoint,
                 data=payload,
-                timeout=self.timeout
+                timeout=self.timeout,
+                headers={'Accept-Charset': 'utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7'}
             )
             
         except requests.exceptions.Timeout:

From 93ebc676798b1a903fb6d6ba60fe288f3cd20972 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: gEndelf <alex.com.ua@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 21:13:25 +0300
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fix response encoding

---
 overpass/api.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/overpass/api.py b/overpass/api.py
index 9580e201001..1f49a9363d7 100644
--- a/overpass/api.py
+++ b/overpass/api.py
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ def _GetFromOverpass(self, query):
                 raise ServerLoadError(self._timeout)
             raise UnknownOverpassError("The request returned status code {code}".format(code = self._status))
         else:
+            r.encoding = 'utf-8'
             return r.text
 
     def _asGeoJSON(self, elements):