diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,32 @@
 
 
 
+feed-collect 0.1.0.1 -- 2015-09-15
+==================================
+
+General, build and documentation changes:
+
+* (None)
+
+New APIs, features and enhancements:
+
+* (None)
+
+Bug fixes:
+
+* The feed XML file was being parsed in a byte-based manner, which works right
+  only for ASCII (or other single-byte encodings). Now the parsing involves
+  UTF-8 encoding.
+
+Dependency changes:
+
+* Add utf8-string (but it already was an indirect dependency before)
+* Remove bytestring (but it's still an indirect dependency)
+
+
+
+
+
 feed-collect 0.1.0.0 -- 2015-09-11
 ==================================
 
diff --git a/feed-collect.cabal b/feed-collect.cabal
--- a/feed-collect.cabal
+++ b/feed-collect.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name:                feed-collect
-version:             0.1.0.0
+version:             0.1.0.1
 synopsis:            Watch RSS/Atom feeds (and do with them whatever you like).
 description:
   RSS and Atom are common technologies for publishing news updates and watching
@@ -38,8 +38,6 @@
   other-modules:       Control.Applicative.Util
   -- other-extensions:    
   build-depends:       base            >=4.7 && <5
-                     , bytestring
---                     , exceptions
                      , feed            >=0.3.9
                      , http-client     >=0.4.19
                      , http-client-tls >=0.2.2
@@ -47,6 +45,7 @@
                      , timerep         >=2
                      , time-units      >=1
                      , transformers
+                     , utf8-string     >=1
   hs-source-dirs:      src
   default-language:    Haskell2010
   ghc-options:         -Wall
diff --git a/src/Web/Feed/Collect.hs b/src/Web/Feed/Collect.hs
--- a/src/Web/Feed/Collect.hs
+++ b/src/Web/Feed/Collect.hs
@@ -149,7 +149,7 @@
 import           Control.Exception (catch)
 import           Control.Monad (liftM, when)
 import           Control.Monad.IO.Class (MonadIO, liftIO)
-import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 as BC
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.UTF8 as BU
 import           Data.Maybe (catMaybes, fromMaybe, listToMaybe)
 import           Data.Time.Clock (UTCTime)
 import           Data.Time.Format
@@ -433,7 +433,7 @@
     let action = do
             request <- parseUrl url
             response <- httpLbs request manager
-            return $ Right $ BC.unpack $ responseBody response
+            return $ Right $ BU.toString $ responseBody response
         handler e = return $ Left (e :: HttpException)
     in  action `catch` handler