Use utf-8 as the default encoding

(fixes crashes on failure to import chardet)

diff --git a/requests/models.py b/requests/models.py
index ff0ef01..ac2811e 100644 (file)
--- a/requests/models.py
+++ b/requests/models.py
@@ -791,7 +791,7 @@ class Response(object):
 
         # Trust that chardet isn't available or something went terribly wrong.
         except Exception:
-            pass
+            return 'utf-8'
 
 
     @property