diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 4bb1f8f..1fb2302 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -17,9 +17,12 @@ http://simplehtmldom.sourceforge.net/
 Install
 -------
 
- composer.phar require
-  - package name: "sunra/php-simple-html-dom-parser": "dev-master"
-
+ composer.phar
+```json
+"require": {
+    "sunra/php-simple-html-dom-parser": "v1.5.0"
+    }
+```
 
 Usage
 -----
diff --git a/Src/Sunra/PhpSimple/simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php b/Src/Sunra/PhpSimple/simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php
index 9a7b2f6..c44a604 100644
--- a/Src/Sunra/PhpSimple/simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php
+++ b/Src/Sunra/PhpSimple/simplehtmldom_1_5/simple_html_dom.php
@@ -75,6 +75,11 @@ function file_get_html($url, $use_include_path = false, $context=null, $offset =
     $contents = file_get_contents($url, $use_include_path, $context, $offset);
     // Paperg - use our own mechanism for getting the contents as we want to control the timeout.
     //$contents = retrieve_url_contents($url);
+
+	//convert contents to utf8
+	$contents = mb_convert_encoding($contents, 'UTF-8',
+		mb_detect_encoding($contents, 'UTF-8, ISO-8859-1', true));
+
     if (empty($contents) || strlen($contents) > MAX_FILE_SIZE)
     {
         return false;
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index ad1a52a..6d21ae1 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -1,8 +1,7 @@
 {
     "name": "sunra/php-simple-html-dom-parser",
     "type": "library",
-    "description": "Composer adaptation of: A HTML DOM parser written in PHP5+ let you manipulate HTML in a very easy way! Require PHP 5+. Supports invalid HTML. Find tags on an HTML page with selectors just like jQuery. Extract contents from HTML in a single line.",
-    "version": "1.5.0",
+    "description": "Composer adaptation of: A HTML DOM parser written in PHP5+ let you manipulate HTML in a very easy way! Require PHP 5+. Supports invalid HTML. Find tags on an HTML page with selectors just like jQuery. Extract contents from HTML in a single line.",    
     "keywords": ["html", "dom", "parser"],
     "homepage": "https://github.com/sunra/php-simple-html-dom-parser",
     "license": "MIT",