diff --git a/restscrape/migrations/0004_page_encoding.py b/restscrape/migrations/0004_page_encoding.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3c953e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/restscrape/migrations/0004_page_encoding.py
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+# Generated by Django 2.2.1 on 2019-05-27 21:00
+
+from django.db import migrations, models
+
+
+class Migration(migrations.Migration):
+
+    dependencies = [
+        ('restscrape', '0003_page_content_size'),
+    ]
+
+    operations = [
+        migrations.AddField(
+            model_name='page',
+            name='encoding',
+            field=models.CharField(default='utf-8', max_length=15),
+        ),
+    ]
diff --git a/restscrape/models.py b/restscrape/models.py
index 6efb6cf..57d89d2 100644
--- a/restscrape/models.py
+++ b/restscrape/models.py
@@ -10,8 +10,9 @@ import pytz
 
 class Page(models.Model):
     url = models.CharField(max_length=300, primary_key=True)
+    encoding = models.CharField(max_length=15, default="utf-8")
     access_time = models.DateTimeField()
-    page_content = models.FileField(upload_to='page_cache')
+    page_content = models.FileField(upload_to="page_cache")
     content_size = models.PositiveIntegerField()
 
     @property
@@ -19,13 +20,20 @@ class Page(models.Model):
         return quote_plus(self.url)
 
     def write(self, page_content):
+        if not isinstance(page_content, bytes):
+            try:
+                page_content = page_content.encode(encoding="utf-8")
+            except UnicodeEncodeError:
+                page_content = page_content.encode(encoding="utf-16")
+                self.encoding = "utf-16"
         self.content_size = len(page_content)
         file = ContentFile(page_content)
         self.access_time = datetime.datetime.now(pytz.utc)
         self.page_content.save(name=self.filename, content=file)
 
     def read(self):
-        return self.page_content.read()
+        raw: bytes = self.page_content.read()
+        return raw.decode(self.encoding)
 
     def delete(self):
         self.page_content.delete()