diff --git a/hslib.pas b/hslib.pas
index c6b7ccc..1e65cfe 100644
--- a/hslib.pas
+++ b/hslib.pas
@@ -1366,7 +1366,7 @@ procedure ThttpConn.processInputBuffer();
 if state = HCS_IDLE then
   begin
   state:=HCS_REQUESTING;
-  reply.contentType:='text/html';
+  reply.contentType:='text/html; charset=utf-8';
   notify(HE_REQUESTING);
   end;
 case state of
@@ -1384,7 +1384,7 @@ procedure ThttpConn.processInputBuffer();
 if not initInputStream() then
   begin
   reply.mode:=HRM_INTERNAL_ERROR;
-  reply.contentType:='text/html';
+  reply.contentType:='text/html; charset=utf-8';
   notify(HE_CANT_OPEN_FILE);
   end;
 notify(HE_STREAM_READY);
diff --git a/main.pas b/main.pas
index 9615a68..1f27601 100644
--- a/main.pas
+++ b/main.pas
@@ -3899,7 +3899,7 @@ procedure Tmainfrm.getPage(sectionName:string; data:TconnData; f:Tfile=NIL; tpl2
   else s:=first(data.banReason, data.disconnectReason);
   addArray(md.table, ['%reason%', s]);
 
-  data.conn.reply.contentType:=ansistring(name2mimetype(sectionName, 'text/html'));
+  data.conn.reply.contentType:=ansistring(name2mimetype(sectionName, 'text/html; charset=utf-8'));
 
   md.cd:=data;
   md.tpl:=tpl2use;
@@ -5130,7 +5130,7 @@ procedure Tmainfrm.httpEvent(event:ThttpEvent; conn:ThttpConn);
       end;
     
     if conn.reply.contentType = '' then
-      conn.reply.contentType:=ansistring(if_(trim(getTill('<', s))='', 'text/html', 'text/plain'));
+      conn.reply.contentType:=ansistring(if_(trim(getTill('<', s))='', 'text/html', 'text/plain'))+'; charset=utf-8';
     conn.reply.mode:=HRM_REPLY;
     conn.reply.bodyMode:=RBM_STRING;
     conn.reply.body:=UTF8encode(s);
diff --git a/scriptLib.pas b/scriptLib.pas
index 9c5d392..25c50db 100644
--- a/scriptLib.pas
+++ b/scriptLib.pas
@@ -457,7 +457,8 @@ function cbMacros(fullMacro:string; pars:Tstrings; cbData:pointer):string;
     vars: Tstrings;
     s: string;
   begin
-  if not satisfied(md.cd) then exit;
+  if not satisfied(md.cd) then
+    exit;
   try
     result:=md.cd.conn.request.url;
     if pars.count < 2 then exit;
@@ -666,7 +667,7 @@ function cbMacros(fullMacro:string; pars:Tstrings; cbData:pointer):string;
   procedure convert();
   begin
   if sameText(p, 'ansi') and sameText(par(1), 'utf-8') then
-    result:=ansiToUTF8(ansistring(par(2)))
+    result:=string(ansiToUTF8(ansistring(par(2))))
   else if sameText(p, 'utf-8') and sameText(par(1), 'ansi') then
     result:=utf8ToAnsi(ansistring(par(2)))
   end; // convert
@@ -1077,6 +1078,7 @@ function cbMacros(fullMacro:string; pars:Tstrings; cbData:pointer):string;
   procedure load(fn:string; varname:string='');
   var
     from, size: int64;
+    s: ansistring;
   begin
   result:='';
   from:=parI('from', 0);
@@ -1095,11 +1097,17 @@ function cbMacros(fullMacro:string; pars:Tstrings; cbData:pointer):string;
     try result:=httpGet(fn, from, size)
     except result:='' end
   else
-    result:=loadFile(uri2diskMaybe(fn), from, size);
+    begin
+    s:=loadFile(uri2diskMaybe(fn), from, size);
+    result:=UTF8ToString(s);
+    if result = '' then
+      result:=s;
+    end;
 
   if varname = '' then
     begin
-    if anyCharIn('/\',fn) then result:=macroQuote(result);
+    if anyCharIn('/\',fn) then
+      result:=macroQuote(result);
     exit;
     end;
   if ansiStartsStr(ENCODED_TABLE_HEADER, result) then
@@ -1962,7 +1970,7 @@ function cbMacros(fullMacro:string; pars:Tstrings; cbData:pointer):string;
       result:=jsEncode(p, first(par(1),'''"'));
 
     if name = 'base64' then
-      result:=base64encode(UTF8encode(p));
+      result:=string(base64encode(UTF8encode(p)));
     if name = 'base64decode' then
       result:=utf8ToString(base64decode(ansistring(p)));
     if name = 'md5' then
diff --git a/utillib.pas b/utillib.pas
index 9ed17fa..23030bc 100644
--- a/utillib.pas
+++ b/utillib.pas
@@ -1707,6 +1707,8 @@ function httpGet(url:string; from:int64=0; size:int64=-1):string;
       contentRangeEnd:=intToStr(from+size-1);
     get();
     result:=reply.dataString;
+    if sameText('utf-8', reGet(ContentType, '; *charset=(.+) *($|;)')) then
+      Result:=UTF8ToString(result);
   finally
     reply.free;
     Free;