diff --git a/hoauth.cabal b/hoauth.cabal
--- a/hoauth.cabal
+++ b/hoauth.cabal
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 name: hoauth
-version: 0.3.4
+version: 0.3.5
 category: Network,Protocol,OAuth
 license: BSD3
 license-file: LICENSE
diff --git a/src/main/haskell/Network/OAuth/Http/CurlHttpClient.hs b/src/main/haskell/Network/OAuth/Http/CurlHttpClient.hs
--- a/src/main/haskell/Network/OAuth/Http/CurlHttpClient.hs
+++ b/src/main/haskell/Network/OAuth/Http/CurlHttpClient.hs
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@
 import Control.Monad.Trans
 import Data.Char (chr,ord)
 import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy as B
+import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.UTF8 as U
 
 data CurlClient = CurlClient | OptionsCurlClient [CurlOption]
 
@@ -102,4 +103,7 @@
                                of CurlClient -> []
                                   OptionsCurlClient o -> o
           
-          fromResponse rsp = RspHttp (respStatus rsp) (respStatusLine rsp) (fromList.respHeaders $ rsp) (B.pack.map (fromIntegral.ord).respBody $ rsp)
+          packedBody rsp = U.fromString . respBody $ rsp
+
+          fromResponse rsp = RspHttp (respStatus rsp) (respStatusLine rsp) (fromList.respHeaders $ rsp) (packedBody rsp)
+