diff --git a/atlassian/rest_client.py b/atlassian/rest_client.py
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/atlassian/rest_client.py
+++ b/atlassian/rest_client.py
@@ -125,6 +125,7 @@ class AtlassianRestAPI(object):
             verify=self.verify_ssl,
             files=files
         )
+        response.encoding = 'utf-8'
         if self.advanced_mode:
             self.response = response
             return response
Set response encoding to utf-8

For every request the requests module guesses the correct encoding, which takes time.



Therefore this commit sets the encoding to uft-8. Also see <URL>